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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam. Get Dear America literature books for free.
-David HalberstamMore 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" (Lo Check Dear America our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

Dear America Download

-David HalberstamMore 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,. for the most part, neither deep nor philosophical, only very, very human" (Lo

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