New PDF release: Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans

By Patricia Rushton

ISBN-10: 0786473525

ISBN-13: 9780786473526

Eighteen nurses who served within the usa army nurse corps through the Vietnam struggle current their own bills during this publication. They characterize all army branches and either genders. They served within the theater of wrestle, within the usa, and in nations allied with the U.S. They served in entrance line hospitals, sanatorium ships, huge scientific facilities and small clinics. They communicate of taking good care of casualties in the course of a clash packed with controversy—and of patriotism, of the nursing occupation, of trip and the journey of friendship and love.

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