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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam - Paperback By Edelman, Bernard - GOOD
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- Unbranded
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- ISBN
- 9780393323047
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393323048
ISBN-13
9780393323047
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2237642
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dear America : Letters Home from Vietnam
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Military / Vietnam War, Social History, American / General, United States / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Literary Collections, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
No full understanding of the most disastrous foreign war in American history can be complete without reading these letters from the GIs to their loved ones back home., Dear America tells of an ache as ancient as time--adolescents off to war with high expectations, who soon change greatly. Ambiguities abound--from pain, disillusionment and sorrow for dead comrades to a hard-earned measure of individual strength and survival., 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., Here is the sad and beautiful countermelody of truth, audible at last, now that we have trashed the drums and cymbals of yet another senseless war.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
959.7/043/092273
Synopsis
"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."--David Halberstam, 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., More than twenty-five 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. Over 100,000 copies sold., 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.
LC Classification Number
DS559.5
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