IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE [Signed]

O'Brien, Tim

ISBN 10: 0714510068 / ISBN 13: 9780714510064

Published by Calder & Boyars, London, UK, 1973

About this Item

Octavo, 199 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Gray spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "£ 2.50", has small stains and mild age toning. Boards have mild bending along the spine head and tail edges. textblock has a light stain on the front end-page, light foxing along the head edges, and light stains and wear along the edges. Inscribed "To Dick, All Best," and signed by Tim O'Brien on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. 1392614. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1392614

Bibliographic Details

• Title: IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE [Signed]
• Publisher: Calder & Boyars, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714510068
• ISBN 13: 9780714510064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First U.K. Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Essays & Speeches

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Synopsis

Perhaps the best book to emerge from the Vietnam War -- reissued alongside five other jewels of the Flamingo backlist from the 1970s. First published in1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim O'Brien's reputation as the outstanding chronicler of the Vietnam experience for a generation of Americans. From basic training to the front line and back again, he takes the reader on an unforgettable journey -- walking the minefields of My Lai, fighting the heat and the snipers in an alien land, crawling into the ghostly tunnels -- as he explores the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war no one believes in.