Blood brothers : among the soldiers of Ward 57

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Label

Blood brothers : among the soldiers of Ward 57

Title remainder

among the soldiers of Ward 57

Statement of responsibility

Michael Weisskopf

Creator

• Weisskopf, Michael

Subject

• Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American
• Amputation, Traumatic -- Iraq -- Personal Narratives
• Military Personnel -- United States -- Personal Narratives
• Embedded war correspondents -- Wounds and injuries -- United States
• Soldat
• History, 21st Century -- United States -- Personal Narratives
• History, 21st Century -- Iraq -- Personal Narratives
• War -- Iraq -- Personal Narratives
• Walter Reed Army Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
• Amputation, Traumatic -- United States -- Personal Narratives
• USA
• Military Personnel -- Iraq -- Personal Narratives
• War -- United States -- Personal Narratives
• Weisskopf, Michael
• Verwundung

Genre

• Personal Narratives
• Personal narratives, American

Language

eng

Summary

A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing. Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf, an embedded reporter, was riding through Baghdad in the back of a U.S. Army Humvee, when he heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he saw a small, dark object rolling inches from his feet. He reached down and took it in his hand. Then everything went black. Weisskopf lost his hand and was sent for treatment to Walter Reed Medical Center. There he crossed paths with three soldiers whose stories he learned during months in the ward. Alongside these men, he navigated the bewildering process of recovery and reentry, and began reconciling life before that day in Baghdad with everything that would follow his release. This chronicle of devastation and recovery is an affecting portrait of the private aftermath of combat casualties.--From publisher description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 956.7044/3092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DS79.76

LC item number

.W45 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2006 N-579
• WO 800

NLM item number

W433b 2006