The Short-Timers -

Gustav Hasford

Bantam

1983

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-10: 0553239457

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.