A Surgeon's War: My Year in Vietnam

Celebrated author Jason Brown (Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work) said it best when he described this riveting memoir: A Surgeons 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 fathers experience as a combat surgeon in World War II to his own assessments of the evolution of trauma care and of the American conscience Wards story is the story of America in the 20th Century.