The Things They Carried

First Line:

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.

Description:

Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam, in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.

Selected Reviews:

"'The Things They Carried'...is one of the finest books, fact or fiction, written about the Vietnam War."

--Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times Book Review