The Barracks Thief

The Barracks Thief
First edition (publ. Ecco Press)
AuthorTobias Wolff
GenreWar stories
Published1984
Media typePrint
Pages101 pages
ISBN0880010355
OCLC9853510

The Barracks Thief is a novella by American writer Tobias Wolff, first published in 1984. The story concerns paratroopers in training during the time of the Vietnam War.

Readers of Wolff's memoir In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War (1994) will note that the author trained as a paratrooper and served in Vietnam.