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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Bernard (Ed Edelman
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Description for Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Paperback. "An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."-David Halberstam Editor(s): Edelman, Bernard. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPL; BJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393323047
SKU
V9780393323047
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Ref
99-1
About Bernard (Ed Edelman
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
Reviews for Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
"Not a history book, not a war novel.... Dear America is a book of truth."
Boston Globe "Dear America is painful, but it must be difficult to be realistic and entertaining about war.... Reading it, I felt I was listening to the voices of the men and women who lived and fought in Vietnam."
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Boston Globe "Dear America is painful, but it must be difficult to be realistic and entertaining about war.... Reading it, I felt I was listening to the voices of the men and women who lived and fought in Vietnam."
Baltimore Sun "Dear America ... Read more