Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
FICTION
Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
Sometimes a girl has to choose between marriage and a nice little jungle war
July
1
1989
Tim O’Brien
James McMullan
Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
Tim O’Brien
July
1
1989
View Article Pages
FICTION
Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
Sometimes a girl has to choose between marriage and a nice little jungle war
July
1
1989
Tim O’Brien
James McMullan
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
FEATURES
Lemonade
July
1989
By
Raymond Carver
Essay
The Writers of Wrong
July
1989
By
Jay McInerney
Memoir
Winter of the Lion
July
1989
By
James Salter
The Summer Reader
Yellow Stars of Utah
July
1989
By
Walter Kirn
The Literary Life
How the Other Half Writes
July
1989
Man Power
A Meeting of Minds
July
1989
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
FEATURES
Lemonade
July
1989
By
Raymond Carver
Essay
The Writers of Wrong
July
1989
By
Jay McInerney
Memoir
Winter of the Lion
July
1989
By
James Salter
Tim O'Brien
WAR
The Violent Vet
DECEMBER 1979
By
TIM O'BRIEN
Fiction
FICTION
Crazy in the Stir
AUGUST 1934
By
CHESTER B. HIMES
FICTION
Eddie and the Piano
DECEMBER, 1941
By
FRANK BROOKHOUSER
Fiction
A Night at County
MAY, 1946
By
GEORGE WISWELL
War
FICTION
The Million Franc Reward
NOVEMBER 1943
By
MANUEL KOMROFF
WAR
Alamogordo, Mon Amour
MAY 1965
By
William L. Laurence
Tim O’Brien
The Man of the Last 70 Years
JFK at 86
October 2003
By
Charles P. Pierce
"I Should Have Been There to Protect Him..."
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
By
JOHN H. RICHARDSON
FICTION
The Fisherman
OCTOBER 1977
By
Tim O’Brien
James McMullan
Eternal Boyhood
The Sissy
OCTOBER 1975
By
Alexander Theroux
FICTION
The Search for J. Kruper
OCTOBER 1966
By
Gina Berriault
The Dream of Terror
July,18 1978
By
Jon Bradshaw
Fiction
fiction
Just One Minute's Rest
MARCH, 1948
By
BRUCE HENRY
FICTION
Mightier Than the Sword
APRIL 1941
By
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
FICTION
AN EXECUTIVE
DECEMBER, 1960
By
HOWARD NEMEROV
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published