Military M.D. Reveals Truth About U.S. Wartime Deaths and Injuries
The political wars of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan have brought with them new battlefield tactics by America's adversaries. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda, just as the Viet Cong before them, have turned to natural terrain and rear-guard attack strategies to offset America's superior military power—and after forty years of conflict, the nature of modern war-making has changed forever.
Dr. Glasser examines these new tactics, along with the necessary adjustments the U.S. Army and Marines have made to meet those changes. He also describes how women were finally included in combat, and the physical and mental wounds suffered by our men and women at war. Going beyond the purview of other books, Dr. Glasser is particularly clear that America must understand the dramatic hidden costs of war—including the treatment of wounds never before seen by our troops.
This is an in-depth study of all the costs of war—from the human toll of injury and death, to the lasting changes these conflicts are bringing to the loved ones on the home front, and to our military planners who must confront future conflicts.
Retired U.S. Army Major General Hal Moore, author of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young has written the Introduction.
Dr. Glasser has written several trade and technical books as well as his bestselling 365 Days, a nominee for the National Book Award. He has been published in Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Monthly and Law &Politics and has been a frequent guest on CNN, The Today Show, NPR and PBS. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Medical School and resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: A Medical Odyssey from Vietnam to Afghanistan from History Publishing Company, LLC, will be in bookstores in June, 2011.
Don Bracken
Publisher
History Publishing Company and Today's Books
365 Days - A Must Read!
“The most convincing, most moving accounts I have yet read about what it was like to be an American soldier in Vietnam.” —Peter Prescott, Newsweek
“365 DAYS lifts the lid on the physical side of war. Stephen Crane could not have been a better guide.” —Robert Sherrill, Chicago Sun-Times
“A moving account about tremendous courage and often suffering....a valuable and redemptive work.” —William Styron, The Washington Monthly
“Chilling, shocking, extremely moving, heartrending. There is no other way to start thinking or writing about 365 DAYS.” —Robert Armstrong, Minneapolis Tribune
“Until the Wilfred Owens and Henri Barbusses and Anton Myrers of the Vietnam War reveal themselves, this book will serve as the standard 'Lest We Forget.’” —Josiah Bunting, Atlantic Monthly
“I felt my pulse rising as I red, but could not put the book down. If you can emerge from the experience unshaken, you're a better man then I am.” —John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate
“Glasser's professional concern melts with the compassion and sensibility of a gifted storyteller, and we are given scenes of wrenching power...A valuable and redemptive work.” —William Styron, Washington Monthly