Full name: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Author: Bernard Edelman Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780393323047 0393323048

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.  Similar books: Shrapnel in the Heart by Laura Palmer Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton Nam by Mark Baker Patriots by Christian G. Appy The Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam Vietnam by Max Hastings America's Longest War by George C. Herring In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara The tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold Everything We Had by Al Santoli Guns Up! by Johnnie M. Clark Charlie Company by Peter Goldman Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War by Robert J. McMahon Vietnam by Michael MacLear 10,000 Days of Thunder by Philip Caputo