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Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story / Jon Kerstetter.
Summary
"In Iraq, as a combat physician and officer, Jon Kerstetter balanced two impossibly conflicting imperatives - to heal and to kill. When he suffered an injury and then a stroke during his third tour, he wound up back home in Iowa, no longer able to be either a doctor or a soldier. In this gorgeous memoir that moves from his impoverished upbringing on an Oneida reservation, to his harrowing stints as a volunteer medic in Kosovo and Bosnia, through the madness of Iraq and his intense mandate to assemble a team to identify the remains of Uday and Qusay Hussein, and the struggle afterward to come to terms with a life irrevocably changed, Kerstetter beautifully illuminates war and survival, the fragility of the human body, and the strength of will that lies within."-- Publisher description.
Item details
- ISBN: 9781101904374
- ISBN: 1101904372
- Physical Description: viii, 342 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishing, [2017]
Contents / Notes
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1. Prologue -- Near the edge of a boundary -- The boundary layer -- Beyond the boundary layer -- 61-November -- War zones -- Call Up -- SimMan -- Camp New York -- Date Palms -- Triage -- Ballistic maneuvers -- The crossing -- Winter error! -- The sound of a zipper -- Globemaster -- Part 2. Awake -- Discovery -- Stroke school -- Reading -- Winter dream -- St. Luke's -- Elephant Man -- Therapy -- VA Style -- The List -- Level 5.3 -- Wride (Write) -- Beyond the crossings -- Epilogue. |
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| Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
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| Lee County Public Library: Leesburg Branch |
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| Live Oak Public Libraries: Oglethorpe Mall Library - Savannah |
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| Marshes of Glynn Libraries: St. Simons Island Public Library |
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| Middle Georgia Regional Library: Washington Memorial Library |
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| Piedmont Regional Library System: Jefferson Public Library |
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