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riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually in cloth bandoliers, adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum. When it was available, they also carried M-16 maintenance gear—rods and steel brushes and swabs and tubes of LSA oil—all of which weighed about a pound.
Oct 26, 2021 · 236 pages ; 20 cm. A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.
Aug 24, 2022 · The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack.
Oct 13, 2009 · The Things They Carried. A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a...
Sep 24, 2015 · The Things They Carried. Tim O’Brien. HarperCollins Publishers, Sep 24, 2015 - Fiction - 256 pages. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination,...
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. Far from a combat story of pride and glory, it is a compassionate tale of the American soldier, brimming with raw honesty and thoughtful reflection. The book's narrator follows a platoon of infantrymen through.
The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien. HarperCollins Publishers, 2024 - Fiction - 304 pages. A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of...
Apr 26, 2022 · The things they carried : a work of fiction. by. O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. Publication date. 1990. Topics. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction, Short stories, American, War stories, American, Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Nouvelles américaines, Récits de guerre américains, Short stories, American, War stories ...
Mar 28, 1990 · A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
