Skip to Main Content
It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.

Ask The Puma Research Guides: How to Tell a True War Story

Quick start research guides to hundreds of assignments given at Valencia East Campus.

Resources

How to Tell a True War Story

 

 

“How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien was first published by Esquire in 1987 and later as part of the 1990 collection The Things They Carried. The short story is itself a collection of war stories alternating with instructions on telling a story.

 

 

Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves

 

  •  PS3565.B75

 

 

Circulating Books – A Selected List

 

  • Heberle, Mark A. A Trauma Artist: Tim O’Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam. 2001.

                         Call Number: PS3565.B75 Z65 2001

  •  Herzog, Tobey C. Tim O’Brien. 1997.

                       Call Number: PS3565.B75 Z69 1997

  • O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. 1990.

                    Call Number: PS3565.B75 T48 1998

  • Smith, Patrick A. Tim O’Brien: a Critical Companion. 2005.

                       Call Number: PS3565.B75 Z86 2005

  •  Vernon, Alex. Soldiers Once and Still. 2004.

                      Call Number: PS374.W35 V47 2004

 

 

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms

 

  • O’Brien, Tim

 

 

Reference Materials

 

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism – Call Number: REF PN771 .C59

o   Vol. 103, pg. 137, 139-40, 161, 166, 174

o   Vol. 211, pg. 189-90, 192-3, 227-28, 230, 234-35

  • Short Story Criticism –  Call Number: REF PN3321 .S5

o   Vol. 74, pg. 233, 238-39, 242, 250-51, 260, 279-82, 288, 292-93, 311-20, 322, 332-33, 335

  • Short Stories for Students – Call Number: REF PN3330 .S386

o   Vol. 15, pg. 117-131

 

 

Research Databases

To access Valencia’s research databases, open your Atlas account, select ‘Search the Library’, then select ‘Databases A-Z’.

 

  • Academic Search Complete
  • Literature Resources from Gale

 

 

This Research Guide is designed to help users find information on a particular topic within the Valencia College East Campus Library.  This is by no means a comprehensive list of resources and other resources may be available on this topic.  Please check LINCCWeb, Valencia East’s online catalog, to verify the availability of circulating books within the library.  Feel free to ask a librarian for help if you need further assistance.

Valencia College East Campus Library

Last Revised on November 21, 2021

Subject Guide

Profile Photo
Erich Heintzelman
Contact:
Valencia College - East Campus
701 N. Econlockhatchee Trail
Office: Building 4-217
Phone: 407-582-2886
Website
The Valencia College libraries do not welcome solicitation of resources to be added to our LibGuides. This includes but is not limited to vendors, search engine optimizers, placement of ads, products, or any other requests. Our LibGuides are carefully curated resources developed in partnership with faculty, staff, and students to support specific assignments, courses, events, and other related purposes at Valencia College. The Valencia libraries reserve the right to ignore LibGuide resource solicitations, and/or block persistent requests from groups or individuals to add or promote links in our LibGuides.