A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam

A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam
by Keith Walker

A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam
List Price: $19.95
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Buy A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam at Amazon.com
(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: Keith Walker
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01-25
ISBN: 089141617X
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Presidio Press
Product features:

Book Reviews of A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam

Book Review: A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 Women Who Served in Vietnam
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is just what I was looking for. It arrived in very good condition and in a timely fashion.

Summary of A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam

"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 a life minus manic highs and lows. "The one thing Nam did for me was that I felt like I could walk on water," says a nurse, a conviction that made later jobs seem worthless or impossibly bland.

General Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Women Warriors in Battle
Female Soldiers--Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Contributions in Women's Studies) ImageFemale Soldiers--Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Contributions in Women's Studies)
Greenwood Press; Published: 1982-08-26; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $126.95
Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers ImageWomen in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers
by Kazimiera Janina Cottam
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company; Published: 1998-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.31
Price in other shops: $26.95
Black Women in Antiquity (Journal of African Civilizations ; V. 6) ImageBlack Women in Antiquity (Journal of African Civilizations ; V. 6)
by Ivan Van Sertima
Transaction Publishers; Published: 1988-12-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $21.33
Price in other shops: $24.95
Woman in Ancient Africa ImageWoman in Ancient Africa
by Heinrich Loth
Lawrence Hill & Co; Published: 1988-02; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops: $35.00
Ah, Those Irish Colleens: Heroic Women of Ireland ImageAh, Those Irish Colleens: Heroic Women of Ireland
by Helen Walsh Folsom
Cumberland House Publishing; Published: 2003-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.94
Price in other shops: $16.95
Heroic women of history: Comprising some of the most remarkable examples of female courage, disinterestedness, and self-sacrifice of ancient and modern times ImageHeroic women of history: Comprising some of the most remarkable examples of female courage, disinterestedness, and self-sacrifice of ancient and modern times
by Henry Clay Watson
James L. Gihon; Published: 1854; Unknown Binding; Book
The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) ImageThe Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
by Loreta Janeta Velazquez
University of Wisconsin Press; Published: 2003-10-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.98
Price in other shops: $26.95
Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy In The Union Army: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army ImageMemoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy In The Union Army: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army
by Sarah Emma Edmonds, S Emma E Edmonds
Diggory Press; Published: 2006-01-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $31.24
An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864 ImageAn Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864
by Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 1996-02-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.55
Price in other shops: $14.95
She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War ImageShe Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War
by Bonnie Tsui
TwoDot; Published: 2006-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.24
Price in other shops: $14.95
Similar Books and other products
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II ImageAnd If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
by Evelyn Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Anchor; Published: 2004-11-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.24
Price in other shops: $15.95
Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ImageShrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
by Laura Palmer
Vintage; Published: 1988-11-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.50
Price in other shops: $13.95
Piece of My Heart: A Play in 2 Acts ImagePiece of My Heart: A Play in 2 Acts
by Shirley Lauro
Samuel French Inc Plays; Published: 1992-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.99
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese ImageWe Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
by Elizabeth M. Norman
Atria; Published: 2000-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.19
Price in other shops: $14.95
Valiant Women of the Vietnam War ImageValiant Women of the Vietnam War
by Karen Zeinert
Millbrook Press; Published: 2000-03-01; Library Binding; Book
Best price: $25.99
Price in other shops: $29.90
Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam ImageDon't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam
by Susan O'Neill
University of Massachusetts Press; Published: 2004-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops: $24.95
Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving) ImageWomen at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)
by Elizabeth Norman
University of Pennsylvania Press; Published: 1990-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $27.50
A World of Hurt: Between Innocence & Arrogance in Vietnam ImageA World of Hurt: Between Innocence & Arrogance in Vietnam
by Mary Reynolds Powell
Greenleaf Book Group; Published: 2000-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.01
Price in other shops: $12.95
Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany ImageVietnam Nurses with Dana Delany
Release date: 2006-08-18; DVD
Best price: $21.95
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam ImageHome Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
by Lynda Van Devanter
University of Massachusetts Press; Published: 2001-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.04
Price in other shops: $24.95
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories