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Dear America : Letters Home from Vietnam by Bernard Edelman for The New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission; OverDrive, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dear America : Letters Home from Vietnam about?

New from ReAnimus Press! The bestselling book and basis for the Emmy award-winning documentary (letters read by Robert DeNiro, Robert Downey Jr., Robin Williams...) ⁰́₄ is now available in ebook edition!"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."⁰́₄David HalberstamDecades after the 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.From Publishers Weekly:This is a poignant collection of letters and poems, mostly to loved ones bac

Who reads Dear America : Letters Home from Vietnam?

Author

Bernard Edelman for The New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

ReAnimus Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781310189333

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Fiction

Rating

4.27 / 5 (788 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13