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May 22, 2024 · The book is about a platoon of soldiers fighting on the ground during Vietnam. “The Things They Carried” is a collection of short stories inspired by real events during author Tim O’Brien’s own service. Accordingly, the novel is presented as a war memoir to make it feel very intimate and authentic. #3. All Quiet on the Western Front
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May 1, 2024 · A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Dust jacket may be missing. Pages can include considerable highlighting, markings, or writing but cannot obscure the text. May be an Ex-lib.
May 12, 2024 · 5 Unconventional Ways to Structure Your Memoir. Award-winning journalist and author Gina DeMillo Wagner shares five unconventional ways to structure your memoir, including several example memoirs that use these structures. Fiction writers have long taken liberties with structure, layering timelines, and weaving together multiple points of view.
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6 days ago · He was elected to the US House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982 and to the Senate in 1986. He was the Republican Party’s nominee for president in the 2008 election. He is the author of Faith of My Fathers, Worth Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Character Is Destiny, Thirteen Soldiers, and The Restless Wave.
5 days ago · That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”.
May 7, 2024 · The youngest living Medal of Honor recipient delivers an unforgettable memoir that "will inspire every reader" (Jim Mattis) NATIONAL BESTSELLER ^ A Marine Commandant's Reading List selection On November 21, 2010, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward Kyle and fellow Marine Nick Eufrazio.
May 20, 2024 · Part memoir, part fiction, O’Brien started this novel as a response to the perceived ignorance people had of the Vietnam War. It's a tough, vivid novel where the things these soldiers carry are both literal - food, canteens, flak jackets, and weapons - and figurative - grief, terror, secrets, and memories. Everything swirls together in this ...
