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Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The author recounts his experiences as a physician in Iraq after volunteering to work as a surgeon with a combat unit in 2004 and as trauma chief at a busy Combat Support Hospital in 2007, with anecdotes about his chaotic caseload and adaptation to a military atmosphere.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Ambitions in scope, American Heroes details the earliest terrorism faced by the United States in the 1800s at the hands of the Barbary Pirates, the major terrorist group developments of the 1970s and 80s, and, most vividly, the post-9/11 Iraq War era. Most inspiringly, North's up-close field notes highlight the core values of today's American soldier in relation to the fight at hand.