Good war memoir stories/books?
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I recently read The Things They Carried and I thought it was a phenomenal book. I'm wondering if there's similar works out there? I haven't checked out any of Tim O'Brien's other books or stories yet, but that's pretty high on the list.
Pic related - Speaking of Courage was probably one of my favorite stories.
Dispatches and
My war gone by, I miss it so. Those are the only war journals I've read but both were really good.
I am interested in similar books as well.
>>8239884
So wait, is this book a war memoir or fiction? Or somewhere in the middle?
Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
Stream-of-consciousness, told from perspective of a WWI soldier who lost all four limbs, his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth to a mortar. I found the first 95-100 pages to be kind of dull and repetitive, but it very quickly picks up at that point. Highly highly recommend.
>>8240261
I think it's a little bit of both. He explains it in a chapter where he talks about how to tell a true war story.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/112/the_things_they_carried.pdf
ctrl + f "true war story"
>>8240278
terrible book and you're terrible for recommending it
Happy Independence Day, /lit/. Here is a poem written by a young American poet who died July 4, 1916, in the Battle of the Somme fighting for the ideals of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity."
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-have-rendezvous-death
