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Dear America : letters home from Vietnam / - 1st ed. - New York : Norton, �1985. - 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Maps on lining papers. Includes index.

"Cherries" First impressions -- "Humping the boonies" -- Beyond the body count -- Base camp : war at the rear -- "World of hurt" -- What am I doing here? -- "We gotta get out of this place" -- Last letters.

This anthology consists of 208 letters, poems, clippings, and diary entries written by American servicemen in Vietnam. Contains letters and poems written to families and friends by soldiers expressing their homesickness and the horrors of war.

ISBN: 0393019985 9780393019988 0671617508 9780671617509

LCCN: 85000273

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte 1966-1970
1961-1975
Geschichte 1966-1970.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.

Subjects--Index Terms: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Personal narratives, American

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Personal Narratives.

LC Class. No.: DS559.5 / .D43 1985

Dewey Class. No.: 959.704/38