An account of the human body's immune system and its occasional breakdown is interwoven with tales of important medical discoveries, past and present, pertaining to its working

The Body Is the Hero

Glasser, Ronald J.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

BANTAM BOOKS

365 Days

History

Asia

Longman

Two men--David, a naive, idealistic young doctor, and Tom, a battle-hardened veteran--find their lives forever transformed as they become involved in a mission to bring medical aid to Vietnamese civilians in villages near the military base

Another War, Another Peace

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster

A young intern records his fight to save an eleven-year-old leukemia victim whose parents brought her to the hospital to die

Ward 402

George Braziller

Over 200,000 copies sold in all editions. A new edition of Ron Glasser's classic account of the Vietnam War. 365 Days stands not only as a compelling account of this tragic conflict, but as a powerful antiwar statement. Nothing speaks so convincingly against the evils of war as the evils themselves. In this gripping account of the human cost of the Vietnam War, Ron Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured daily by those on the front lines. "The stories I have tried to tell here are true," says Glasser in his foreword. "Those that happened in Japan I was part of; the rest are from the boys I met. I would have liked to disbelieve some of them, and at first I did, but I was there long enough to hear the same stories again and again, and then to see part of it myself." 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. 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 tourone year, or 365 daysand they knew, down to the day, how much time they had left. Glasser tells their storiesof lives shockingly interrupted by the tragedies of warwith moving, humane eloquence.

Americas

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