Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393323047)

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.

Author: Bernard Edelman
ISBN-10: 0393323048
ISBN-13: 9780393323047
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2002
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.64w x 0.84d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 48137 / Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 09/01/2002 pg. 40