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
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