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From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67:
Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in
the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the
human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the reader a
grunt's-eye-view of the conflict - from the steaming rice paddies
and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of
the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the
DMZ. It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in
the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers
themselves.
"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."—David Halberstam
More than twenty-five 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. Over 100,000 copies sold.
"Not a history book, not a war novel....Dear America is a book of truth."—Boston Globe
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