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Parts of this book in modified form have appeared elsewhere:

A shorter version of Chapter Six: “Combat Memoirs of the Vietnam War,” in: VIA LITTERAE. Vol. 5, N o. 1, jan/jun 2013. Universidade de Goiás. Anápolis, Goias, PP. 257-280.

A shorter version of Chapter Seven: “Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War,” in: REVISTA ESTUDOS ANGLO-AMERICANOS. Abrapui, S. Paulo. Edição 35, 2012.

A modified and expanded version of Section ii, Chapter Eleven: “Deviations from Realism in the Vietnam War Novel,” VERTENTES São João del-Rei, MG, Brazil, no. 34, July-December 2009, pp. 42-52.

A shorter version of Chapter One: “Art Imitates Life: Edward G. Landsdale and the Fiction of Vietnam,” in: ACTA SCIENTARUM—Language and Culture. Vol. 31, No. 1, Jan-June 2009, pp. 95-102

A modified version of Section ii, Chapter One, “American Interference: A Political-Cultural Reading of Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. VERTENTES. São João del-Rei, MG, no. 30, July-December 2007, pp. 129-137.

I would like to give thanks to several people who were helpful in the research and writing of this book: to Prof. John Clarke Pratt, with his unmatched knowledge of the literature of the war, my advisor who guided me in the planning and writing of the first half of the book during my stay as visiting scholar at Colorado State University, and to the college, which lent me an office and computer, and the library and staff of special collections at CSU; to the Department of English and Corresponding Literatures at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Prof. Eliana Àvila, my advisor there; to the College of Letters (FALE), of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), which granted me six months sabbatical leave on those two occasions; to my colleagues of the Center for Study of War, Literature and the Arts (NEGUE), especially José Otaviano Mata Machado, Marcela Gontijo, Elcio Cornelsen, and Volker Jaeckel, for their help and many useful discussions.

My special thanks to my former student and co-founder of NEGUE, Luiz Gustavo Vieira, who spent many hours with me discussing war, literature, and other aspects of life, and who read the entire manuscript, correcting mistakes and offering valuable criticisms at every point.

Luiz Gustavo—a valuable friend, student, colleague, and often teacher—to whom I gratefully dedicate this book.

There it is…The phrase was much used by stoic grunts everywhere.

Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn

There it is, they‘d say. Over and over—there it is, my friend, there it is—as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy, knowing without going, there it is, which meant be cool, let it ride, because Oh yeah, man, you can´t change what can´t be changed, there it is, there it absolutely and positively and fucking well is.

Tim O‘Brien, The Things They Carried