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Title: Shrapnel in the Heart : Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Laura Palmer ISBN: 0-394-75988-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 November, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best
Comment: Shrapnel In the Heart is a book to be read by everyone no matter what generation they were born in. Shrapnel In The Heart is a book that has letters and rememberances left behind at the Vietnam War Memorial. Some of the letters tell the story about the people behind the letter. The stories are sad, but the courage of the men and women is a true inspiration. The people written about in this book were extrememly young (18, 19, 20) and it seems like they died in vain. But through their letters that were left behind it is easy to see that these young men knew their duty and refused to shirk from it. These men and women are true heroes.
Rating: 5
Summary: I wish all young people had to read this!
Comment: I read this book for a college history course and until now have thought very little about war, military, or world politics. Young people today rarely understand or realize what goes with becoming a soldier. This book gives real images of the devastation war brings from the people who lived through the tragedy of losing their loved ones. It opens our eyes to things we just shouldn't close our eyes on.
Rating: 3
Summary: Do I dare?
Comment: Do I dare to give this book a less-than-glowing review? I am inclined to do so not because of the power and dignity of the people and the stories in the book--those speak for themselves. It was Palmer (the author) that bothered me. As I was reading the book, I could not help but feel that she was trying to manipulate me, tugging at heartstrings that needed no tug to be moved by these heartfelt stories. I felt a bit patronized by her. A good book (or movie, or whatever), if it moves me, should not make me feel the push; this one did, and it left me feeling the way people usually feel when they were pushed in a direction that they would have gone anyway--irritated.
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Title: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam by Bernard Edelman ISBN: 0393323048 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter, Lynda Van Devanter ISBN: 1558492984 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: A Piece of My Heart : The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam by Keith Walker ISBN: 089141617X Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters who Covered Vietnam by Tad Bartimus, Tracy Wood, Kate Webb, Laura Palmer, Edith Lederer, Jurate Kazickas ISBN: 0375506284 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Kristin Ann Hass ISBN: 0520213173 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.80 |
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