Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Bernard Edelman
(Editor)
Description
Nearly forty years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of more than 200 letters, they share their first impressions of the rigors of life in the bush, their longing for home and family, their emotions over the conduct of the war, and their ache at the loss of a friend in battle. Poignant in their rare honesty, the letters from Vietnam are "riveting, ... extraordinary by [their] very ordinariness... for the most part, neither deep nor philosophical, only very, very human" (Los Angeles Times). Revealing the complex emotions and daily realities of fighting in the war, these close accounts offer a powerful, uniquely personal portrait of the many faces of Vietnam's veterans.Product Details
Price
$16.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
May 17, 2002
Pages
336
Dimensions
5.64 X 7.9 X 0.84 inches | 0.57 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393323047
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About the Author
Bernard Edelman served as a broadcast specialist/correspondent in Vietnam. He is the author of Centenarians: The Story of the 20th Century by the Americans Who Lived It