The Things They Carried A Work of Fiction

First Line:

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

Description:

Since its first publication in 1979, "The Things They Carried" has become an unparalleled testament to the men who served in Vietnam--a classic work that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.

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