"Since it burst onto the literary scene over twenty-five years ago, The Things They Carried has not stopped changing minds and lives, challenging readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. It is an unparalleled Vietnam testament and a major literary achievement. It depicts the men of Alpha Company, who carried love letters, mine detectors, Bibles, and each other. And if they made it home, they carried...

Harry Bosh, detective de la policia de Los Angeles, es un lobo solitario. Hijo de una prostituta asesinada, fue criado en orfanatos y quedo marcado tras vivir la dura experiencia de Vietnam. Ahora, un caso rutinario de muerte por sobredosis le devuelve inesperadamente al pasado. La victima, Billy Meadows, habia servido en su misma unidad en Vietnam. Ambos habian combatido en la red de pasajes subterraneos del Viet Cong y habian experimentado el horror...

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran -- and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been...

This work depicts the heroic young men of Alpha Company as they carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left...