Description
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
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9780393323047
Author Bernard Edelman
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 259g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 20mm