Blogs in May 2020

Going After Cacciato 17th May 2020

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciatocaptures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier...

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If I Die in a Combat Zone 1st January 1970

A personal journey throught the Vietnam war, a war no-one really wanted, facing an enemy in alien and inhospitable terrain. This the “the” book of the Vietnam war.

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The Things They Carried 1st January 1970

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...

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