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The Things They Carried
Hardcover, 233 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List Price: $24 | purchase
Book Summary
An anniversary edition of a collection of interconnected fictional stories follows the members of an American platoon fighting in the Vietnam War, in a book that mirrors the author's own wartime experiences.
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This book is about:
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975,
- Veterans,
- Psychological fiction,
- Fiction
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