What they carried

In the war, everyone carries something different: someone has a photo of his girlfriend, who is no longer his girlfriend, another - caffeine pills, and someone - memories of the golf course in his hometown. Soldiers carry sleeping bags, weapons, carry through life friendship and a sense of front-line brotherhood. Despair, sorrow, loss, fear are brought. The Vietnam War, as Tim O'Brien describes it in the text, is not like a fair fight against the invaders: the heroes of the stories themselves often do not understand how they ended up on a foreign land, what they are fighting for, and most importantly, when they will finally return home. One of the best collections of stories about war, fear, love and literature.