Piece of My Heart by Keith Walker

Ballantine Books, 1987-04-12. paperback. Good. 4x1x7.

Very Good. Very good condition. No highlighting, writing or marks of any kind. Clean covers and tight binding. Only slight wear to corners and spine-ends. Edges good, no scuffs, dings or tears.

Ballantine Books, 1987. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Good. Exact ISBN match. Immediate shipping. No funny business. Pics available upon request.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1987. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. "Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell." --San Francisco Chronicle A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others recount the time they spent "in country" as part of 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses and in the military. After working on too many mutilated young men, one nurse tells of wanting to ask her mother to "check around and see if she could find one whole eighteen-year- old." Like male veterans, many returned with post-traumatic stress disorder. They found it hard to shake the numbness that made a war zone bearable or to settle into… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.