The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien's modern Vietnam classic, a sequence of linked short stories that blurs the line between fiction and memoir as it follows Alpha Company through the war and after. The title story, which inventories the literal objects each soldier carried into the field, is one of the most-anthologised pieces of American prose written in the last fifty years.

A National Book Award finalist, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a permanent fixture on American high-school and college reading lists. The single most-recommended Vietnam War book for first-time readers.