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Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq

By Michael , anthony

Book information

Publisher
Adams Media
Year
2009
ISBN
1440501831, 9781440501838, 9781440504389
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
358 kB (366094 bytes)
Pages
xv, 234 pages ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Joining the Army at 17, the author went in with high hopes and sterling ideals; coming from a family with a proud military background. What he discovered was a disenchanting web of mundane corruption and self-serving lies. Unlike accounts exposing the military's most shameful iniquities, the author's memoir focuses on an endless parade of petty offenses- the cowardice, drug addiction, thievery, adultery and rampant hypocrisy- he found while working in a base hospital. Relentlessly honest and reflective, the author communicates perfectly the stranglehold of sadness, fear and disappointment that came with his lost innocence; just as worse is his eventual acceptance of the pointless, dysfunctional bureaucracy maintaining the status quo.

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