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The barracks thief and selected stories

The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own.

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  • "The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own."@en
  • "Offers a collection of short stories that combines, in mostly domestic settings, intense feeling with wild imagination and familiar situations with extraordinary events."
  • "1967 : le camp militaire de Fort Bragg. Trois jeunes paras achèvent leur formation avant d'être expédiés au Vietnam. Trois hommes armés de fusils qui, un jour de fête nationale, mettent en joue deux civils..."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "War stories"

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  • "Der Kasernendieb Novelle"
  • "The barracks thief and selected stories"
  • "The barracks thief and selected stories"@en
  • "The Barracks thief"
  • "Engrenages : roman"
  • "Engrenages"
  • "Ladrón de cuarteles"
  • "Ladrón de cuarteles"@es
  • "De kazernedief"
  • "Il colpevole"@it
  • "Il colpevole"
  • "The barracks thief : and selected stories"@en
  • "The barracks thief and other stories"
  • "The barracks thief"
  • "The barracks thief"@en
  • "The barracks thief a novel"@en

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