Blood brothers : among the soldiers of Ward 57 / Michael Weisskopf.
2006
DS79.76 .W45 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Blood brothers : among the soldiers of Ward 57 / Michael Weisskopf.
Author
Weisskopf, Michael.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805086607 (pbk.)
0805086609 (pbk.)
9780805078602
0805078606
0805086609 (pbk.)
9780805078602
0805078606
Publication Details
New York : H. Holt, 2006.
Language
English
Description
xi, 301 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DS79.76 .W45 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
956.7044/3092
Summary
A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing. Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf, an embedded reporter, was riding through Baghdad in the back of a U.S. Army Humvee, when he heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he saw a small, dark object rolling inches from his feet. He reached down and took it in his hand. Then everything went black. Weisskopf lost his hand and was sent for treatment to Walter Reed Medical Center. There he crossed paths with three soldiers whose stories he learned during months in the ward. Alongside these men, he navigated the bewildering process of recovery and reentry, and began reconciling life before that day in Baghdad with everything that would follow his release. This chronicle of devastation and recovery is an affecting portrait of the private aftermath of combat casualties.--From publisher description.
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