Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam

Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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.  Zusammenfassung "An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."—David Halberstam

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Edelman
• Assisted by: Bernard Edelman (Editor), Edelman Bernard (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2002
• EAN: 9780393323047
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32304-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; USA, Vietnam, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Asian History, History of the Americas, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1970 to c 1979, Modern warfare, c 1970 to c 1980, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Vietnam War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General