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Rachel Nolan, author of ClassicNote. Completed on January 10, 2009, copyright held by GradeSaver.
Updated and revised by Damien Chazelle April 03, 2009. Copyright held by GradeSaver.
Tim O'Brien. The Things They Carried. London: HarperCollins, 1991.
Michael Herr. Dispatches. New York: Vintage, 1991.
Myra McPherson. A Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation. New York: Anchor, 1993.
William Appleman Williams, Thomas McCormick, Lloyd Gardner, W. Lafeber. America in Vietnam: A Documentary History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.
Tim O'Brien. "Author's Home Page." 2009-01-02. <http://www.illyria.com/tobhp.html>."Complete Index." 2009-01-02. <http://www.brtom.org/tttc/tttc1.html>.Related Content for The Things They Carried
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