Piece of My Heart

“Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell.”—San Francisco ChronicleA 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 "e;in country"e; as part of 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses and in the military.NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.“The emotional current never falters.”—The New York Times Book Review