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12, 20 And 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

A Navy physician sets down the story of a single year spent treating wounded men in Vietnam. He describes the training that prepared him for military service, the daily demands of medical work in a war zone, and his own reflections on how the conflict was being fought. Part personal record and part commentary, the book views the war from the position of someone who came to heal rather than to fight, and it offers his judgments on the way the war was conducted.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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