365 Days Contributor(s): Glasser, Ronald J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807600016 ISBN-13: 9780807600016 Publisher: George Braziller
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: May 2014 * Out of Print * |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | Military - United States - History | Military - Veterans |
Dewey: 959.704 |
LCCN: 2014011047 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.61 lbs) 290 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Chronological Period - 1960's |
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Publisher Description: Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September 1968, Glasser arrived as a pediatrician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps to care for the children of officers and high-ranking government officials. The hospital's main mission, however, was to support the war and care for the wounded. "They all came through the hospitals of Japan ... the chopper pilots and the RTO's, the forward observers, the cooks, the medics and the sergeants... the heroes and the ones under military arrest, the drug addicts and the killers." At Zama, an average of six to eight thousand patients were attended to per month, and the death and suffering were staggering. The soldiers counted their days by the length of their tour--one year, or 365 days--and they knew, down to the day, how much time they had left. Glasser tells their stories--of lives shockingly interrupted by the tragedies of war--with moving, humane eloquence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Glasser, Ronald J.: - Ronald J. Glasser, M.D., is a physician and the author of several investigations of trauma in modern warfare, including Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds and Wounded: Vietnam/Iraq, as well as the general medical studies The Light in the Skull and The Body Is the Hero. He is also the author of the novels Another War, Another Peace and Ward 402. He lives in Minneapolis. |
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