The Short-Timers

Name: The Short-Timers
ISBN: 9780553239454

Gustav Hasford

1979·179 pages

Historical Fiction

classics

This novel was the source text of Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket". It follows the career of the sardonic narrator from the organized sadism of Marine basic training to an assignment as a combat reporter in Vietnam to his experiences as a platoon commander after the Tet offensive, portraying the descent into barbarism that marked America's intervention in Vietnam.

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