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The soldiers interviewed by Al Santoh for his 1981 book Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Soldiers Who Fought It tell the sort of short, focused, poignant tales of their experiences that the veterans in In Country come up with infrequently.
One of the best writers to emerge from the Vietnam experience is Tim O'Brien. His book The Things They Carried was many years in the making (it was published in 1990) and it uses a new form, neither really novel nor short story collection,...
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