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Lonely Girls With Burning Eyes: A Wife Recalls Her Husband's Journey Home from Vietnam
Lonely Girls With Burning Eyes A Wife Recalls Her Husband's Journey Home from Vietnam
Author: Marian F. Novak
The memoirs of the wife of a Marine infantry officer in Vietnam during the late 1960s describe her experiences at home in the United States--the effect of the war on her, her friends with Marine husbands, and her generation. During an orientation for Marine wives she sees the words "wounded or killed" and "the war came to me like ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316613231
ISBN-10: 0316613231
Publication Date: 2/1991
Pages: 276
Edition: 1st ed
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Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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An enlightening, sad, absorbing book. Skillfully and realistically takes you back through the emotional agony of those left behind..--Mrs. Omar N. Bradley. It is about a young woman who came of age as her husband went off to a war that shattered his spirit. Anyone who has loved a soldier--and anyone who loves a veteran--will be moved by Lonely Girls, which fills a huge void in the literature of war...Bernard Edelman.....Powerful and unforgetable


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