The Short-Timers
First hardcover edition | |
| Author | Gustav Hasford |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiographical, War novel |
| Publisher | Harper and Row (HB) & Bantam (PB) |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 192 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 0-553-17152-6 (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 13360352 |
| Followed by | The Phantom Blooper |
The Short-Timers is a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Gustav Hasford, about his experience in the Vietnam War. Hasford served as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division during the Tet Offensive of 1968. As a military journalist, he wrote stories for Leatherneck Magazine, Pacific Stars and Stripes, and Sea Tiger. The novel was adapted into the film Full Metal Jacket (1987), co-scripted by Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick.
In 1990, Hasford published the sequel The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam. The two books were supposed to be part of a "Vietnam Trilogy", but Hasford died before writing the third installment.