O'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.

First published 1975. Afterword and Reader's guide (Extra libris) copyright 1914.

Days -- Pro Patria -- Beginning -- Nights -- Under the mountain -- Escape -- Arrival -- Alpha company -- Ambush -- Man at the well -- Assault -- Mori -- My lai in May -- Step lightly -- Centurion -- Wise endurance -- July -- Lagoon -- Dulce et Decorum -- Another war -- Hearts and minds -- Courage is a certain kind of preserving -- Don't I know you?.