Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Language: English
Published by WW Norton & Co, 1985
- Hardcover
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316 p. Audience: General/trade.Clean copy, DJ has minor marks. Great book. Very good. No dust jacket as iss.
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- Title
- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
- Author
- Edelman, Bernard (Editor), and New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commi, and Koch, Edward Arving (Adapted by)
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Publication year
- 1985
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393019985
- ISBN 13
- 9780393019988
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Review
Dear America is more than correspondence from homesick GIs. It is a collective letter to the nation and its government, a plea that asks: Why did you do this to your children? To America? For the sake of our country, don't let this happen again. "
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.--Kurt Vonnegut
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.--Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam correspondent
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.
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.
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