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Shrapnel in the Heart (Paperback)

by Laura Palmer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc; 1st Vintage Books Ed edition (April 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0394759885
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394759883
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,016,173 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This tour de force brings home the pain and suffering of soldiers and kin in a way that no other writing has with which I'm familiar. It is simply splendid." -- Walter Cronkite
"A moving, touching, generous book that helps restore humanity to a generation of young Americans who were depersonalized and dehumanized by the political passions of an unpopular war. Read it and weep." -- Ted Koppel
"This is a book that needed to be written. Laura Palmer's sensitivity and understanding...may indeed make Shrapnel in the Heart a classic." -- Jan Scruggs, President, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
"A powerful and moving book." -- Cyra McFadden
"There is an extraordinary and deeply moving eloquence in these expressions of grief. This is a book that should be read, but it is slow going. It is difficult to read through a steady mist of tears." -- The Atlantic

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More than one hundred letters left at Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial are accompanied by interviews with the authors of the letters, families of soldiers killed in the war.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't miss this one!, 21 Sep 1998
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If you have any interest at all in the VietNam War you should not miss this book. It puts a face on all those whose names are inscribed on The Wall. Guaranteed to break your heart!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Once you start reading, you won't put it down., 18 Jul 1998
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I recently bought this book while visting Arlington National Cemetary. It made me undertand more about what was going on here in the United States with families only knowing things about the Vietnam War from what they saw on television. I just could not put this book down for one second. This book even made me cry many times and made me swollow hard tears. We musn't forget those who went over there to fight a war our government tried to win. We should remember them, whether they came home or not.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It broke my heart to think I lived it and was untouched., 22 Jun 1998
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I first read Shrapnel in the Heart shortly after its release, having bought it at the Vietnam Vets Memorial. I cannot believe that I was in college, and then newly married when all of Vietnam was going on and I was virtually untouched. I only know of one person "on the wall" and he was a college classmate, commissioned on Graduation day and killed 10 months later. Now I have two sons, graduates of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, one a Marine in Artillery and I cannot imagine war, or their never coming home. One of the dead soldier's stories always haunts me... the boy was several weeks shy of his nineteenth birthday and he hadn't even gotten his wisdom teeth yet. How sad to be his mother, sister, friend, fellow soldier. It is a sad accounting of some of America's darkest days.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A book for everyone that needs perspective in their lives.
A letter I wrote to Laura Palmer after years of reading her book again and again... Dear Ms. Palmer: "Shrapnel in the Heart" keeps everything in my life in... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars So touching it must be read in small doses!
Many books about Viet Nam focus on the military person - - this book not only shares the grief of the wives and mothers left behind, but the feelings of loss felt by brothers and... Read more
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