Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam - Hardcover

New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393019985 ISBN 13: 9780393019988

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985

Synopsis

This collection of letters, poems, and petitions from the front, written mostly by infantrymen to their families and friends, evokes the mingled emotions of an intense longing for home, fear, hope, grief, and anger aroused by the Vietnam War

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

“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.”
- Baltimore Sun

“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.”
- Washington Post Book World

“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

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0393019985
• ISBN 13: 9780393019988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Bernard Edelman