Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
- ISBN-10
- 0393323048
- ISBN-13
- 9780393323047
- Series
- Dear America
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Bernard Edelman
Description
A 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. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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- 2020-04-14
- 408 pages
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- Trinity University Press
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