The things they carried by tim o'brian
A semi auto biography by vietnam war vet time o'brian, the story follows a fictional version of himself and mad up commerads through part of the war. Set when the men fough but used drugs, drank, and looked very vietnam warish. Terror at the thought of dying is obiously expersed, but the first few pages are basically list of stuff they carried along to live and then what they took because they couldn't live without it. Its different from red badge of courage as this is about mainly blue collar kids who want to get out alive and nothing more. Combat stories are lacking ass kicking and are more prone to be quick terrifing flashes.