Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Softcover

Palmer, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394759885 ISBN 13: 9780394759883

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1988

Synopsis

A collection of the letters left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Also presents the painful, tender, and haunting tales of those who wrote these letters: wives, children, siblings.

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Review:

"This tour de force brings home the pain and suffering of soldiers and kin in a way that no other writing has with which I'm familiar. It is simply splendid." -- Walter Cronkite

"A moving, touching, generous book that helps restore humanity to a generation of young Americans who were depersonalized and dehumanized by the political passions of an unpopular war. Read it and weep." -- Ted Koppel

"This is a book that needed to be written. Laura Palmer's sensitivity and understanding...may indeed make Shrapnel in the Heart a classic." -- Jan Scruggs, President, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

"A powerful and moving book." -- Cyra McFadden

"There is an extraordinary and deeply moving eloquence in these expressions of grief. This is a book that should be read, but it is slow going. It is difficult to read through a steady mist of tears." -- The Atlantic

About the Author:

Laura Palmer is the author of Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and has collaborated on a number of other books, including the New York Times bestseller Escape and To Catch a Predator with NBC's Chris Hansen. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0394759885
• ISBN 13: 9780394759883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272