A SURGEON'S WAR. MY YEAR IN VIETNAM - Tecno-Libro

Celebrated author Jason Brown ( Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work ) said it best when he described this riveting memoir: . A Surgeon s War offers an indispensible view of combat medicine in the Vietnam War. it is also the beautifully written story of a young man coming of age in the crucible of conflict. We follow the young Ward Trueblood from the protected, Eisenhower-era life of a small town in the Midwest, to heady and idealistic days as a graduate student at Stanford, to the war, and finally to his adulthood as a leading figure in trauma medicine. From his reflections on his father s experience as a combat surgeon in World War ii, to his own assessments of the evolution of trauma care and of the American conscience, Ward s story is the story of America in the 20 th Century.