NMLP P-031311 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Dispatches — deeper Vietnam: Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (memoir)

Tim O'Brien · Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence · 1973

This is O'Brien's first book (a memoir). The US Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence edition and the UK Calder & Boyars edition both appeared in 1973 and are generally treated as simultaneous; the US edition does not clearly precede the UK. The US Delacorte is the collected American first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-031311 for "Dispatches — deeper Vietnam: Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (memoir)" by Tim O'Brien (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-031311, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).