The ShortTimers Author:Gustav Hasford The acclaimed novel upon which the movie Full Metal Jacket is based. — Vietnam, 1968. A nightmarish landscape blackened by napalm and littered with once-human debris. Where victories are measured in mountains of corpses and ordinary men are transformed in obsessive executioners. This is the brutally honest story of Cpl. Joker an... more »d his battle-hardened company religiously counting the days until their release from the green prison of combat.« less