Written by Tim O’Brien the author of The Things They Carried. The war in Vietnam, for those who served was a trip to insanity. Not a big leap for a squad to go marching across Asia and Europe after a deserter named Cacciatio the route to Paris, France plotted on his Atlas. The book documents their journey interspersed with descriptions of the soldiers, their missions, their dreams and snippets of days on leave, calls home, nights spent on watch, boredom, and the sheer terror of checking tunnels. So what is fact and what is fantasy. Dropping the grenade in the tunnel a despised Lieutenant entered after all his men refused a direct command?
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