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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The story of a war must be a large story, no? From the Iliad to War and Peace, from Wings to Apocalypse Now, those who have tried to present a coherent narrative of armed conflict have invariably found their accounts bursting at the seams. And even after the final page, we are frequently left with the uneasy sense that only a small microcosm of reality …

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