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An army doctors classic Vietnam War memoira National Book Award Finalist and a book of great emotional impactplus two powerful novels (The New York Times).
Published in 1971 with the Vietnam War still raging, Ronald Glassers unflinching memoir of one doctors experience with the human cost of the devastating conflict was hailed by William Styron as a moving account about tremendous courage and often immeasurable suffering . . . [A] valuable and redemptive work. 365 Days quickly became a powerful anti-war statement of the time that still resonates today, selling over two hundred thousand copies.
Turning to fiction, Glasser continued to draw on his own experience as a doctor in the Vietnam War and as an intern in a pediatric ward to craft novels of gripping drama and heartfelt poignancy.
365 Days: In 1968, as a serviceman in the Vietnam War, Ronald Glasser, a pediatrician, was sent to Japan to work at the US Army hospital tending to children of officers and government officials. But he was soon caught up in the waves of casualties that poured in from every Vietnam front. In 365 Days, Glasser reveals a candid and shocking account of that harrowing experience, giving voice to the wounded, the maimed, the dead, with unflinching candor and compassionate humanity.
The most convincing, most moving account I have yet to read about what it was like to be an American soldier in Vietnam. Newsweek
Another War, Another Peace: Assigned to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, an idealistic young doctor forms an unlikely bond with his driver, a battle-hardened soldier, as they struggle to bring medical aid to Vietnamese villagers.
The author of the remarkable classic 365 Days has in this small novel written with such power about a young American doctor in the war zone that surely he has added another memorable book to the literature of those ghastly years. Gloria Emerson, author of Winners & Losers
Ward 402: In this gripping, authentic, and impassioned novel, an intern on pediatric Ward 402 fights to save an eleven-year-old girl with advanced leukemia, which her parents believe to be terminal.
[Dr. Glasser] can describe a medical emergency in a way that makes the entire scene spring to life. . . . This is good and exciting writing. The New York Times Book Review
Published in 1971 with the Vietnam War still raging, Ronald Glassers unflinching memoir of one doctors experience with the human cost of the devastating conflict was hailed by William Styron as a moving account about tremendous courage and often immeasurable suffering . . . [A] valuable and redemptive work. 365 Days quickly became a powerful anti-war statement of the time that still resonates today, selling over two hundred thousand copies.
Turning to fiction, Glasser continued to draw on his own experience as a doctor in the Vietnam War and as an intern in a pediatric ward to craft novels of gripping drama and heartfelt poignancy.
365 Days: In 1968, as a serviceman in the Vietnam War, Ronald Glasser, a pediatrician, was sent to Japan to work at the US Army hospital tending to children of officers and government officials. But he was soon caught up in the waves of casualties that poured in from every Vietnam front. In 365 Days, Glasser reveals a candid and shocking account of that harrowing experience, giving voice to the wounded, the maimed, the dead, with unflinching candor and compassionate humanity.
The most convincing, most moving account I have yet to read about what it was like to be an American soldier in Vietnam. Newsweek
Another War, Another Peace: Assigned to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, an idealistic young doctor forms an unlikely bond with his driver, a battle-hardened soldier, as they struggle to bring medical aid to Vietnamese villagers.
The author of the remarkable classic 365 Days has in this small novel written with such power about a young American doctor in the war zone that surely he has added another memorable book to the literature of those ghastly years. Gloria Emerson, author of Winners & Losers
Ward 402: In this gripping, authentic, and impassioned novel, an intern on pediatric Ward 402 fights to save an eleven-year-old girl with advanced leukemia, which her parents believe to be terminal.
[Dr. Glasser] can describe a medical emergency in a way that makes the entire scene spring to life. . . . This is good and exciting writing. The New York Times Book Review
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Half a Century Later
It is a tribute to Glassers great skill as a writer that from this most morally loathsome of wars, which has in some way degraded each person who has been touched by it, he has fashioned a moving account about tremendous courage and often immeasurable suffering . Valuable and redemptive. William Styron
365 Days was the best novel to come out of [Vietnam]. David Mamet
Sixty years ago this summer, the Vietnam War began. 365 Days, written during that war and published in 1971 during the years of the most desperate fighting, has sustained itself as a history of sorts. My hope in writing the book was to explain the human aspects of the war in Vietnam, in much the same way that Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage, Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front, and Robert Gravess Good-Bye to All That are read to understand the sacrifices of earlier wars. There is virtue enough in that for any book.
Traditional military history is usually direct and uncomplicated. Major battles are discussed, the successes and failures easily described by retreats and advances. Yet there is a growing consensus among current historians that strategic judgments about victory or defeat must be set aside for a number of years, if not decades, before all the wars outcomes become clear. The one essential attribute of any true victory is that it must endure.
In some cases, the line between victory and defeat becomes blurred almost immediately. The Greek general Pyrrhus of Epirus made that clear following his victory over a youthful Rome at the battle of Asculum in 279 BCE. Pyrrhus destroyed the tenacious Roman legions but his losses were grievous and unsustainable. Pyrrhus was forced to remark, while overlooking the carnage of that battlefield, One more such victory and we are lost.
Some two thousand two hundred years later, during the Paris peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam, United States delegate Henry Kissinger is said to have explained to the North Vietnamese representative, You are aware that we have won every battle. The North Vietnamese general listened politely and is said to have answered, Yes, that is true but it is also irrelevant.
By the middle of the 1970s, our country had had enough of battlefield victories. With no peace in sight, the US decided to simply close down its bases in Vietnam, and turn the war over to the South Vietnamese in 1973. Two years later, the remaining American political and ambassadorial staffs were evacuated by helicopter from the rooftop of our embassy in Saigon.
Vietnam by any realistic metric was a defeat, whether reckoned by the enormous treasure used to pay for the war, or the fifty-eight thousand two hundred Americans killed along with the three or four hundred thousand wounded in body as well as soul. Four million young Americans went off to Southeast Asia to wage what was in reality not a ten-year war but a one-year war fought ten times.
Vietnam has not gone away. It has lingered, a crazy aunt in the attic. If you listen closely enough, you can still hear her moving about over our heads. Apparently no one was listening when we sent our troops into Iraq and Afghanistan. But there is no one in our military today who does not hear 1968 along with the real Vietnam legacy shuffling about over our heads whenever some jingoist, war buff, or politician starts talking again about what is sure to be another splendid little war.
No matter what any politician or talking head might say about Americas recent self-restraint, Vietnam is the true reason that our military has not yet put any boots on the ground in Libya or Syria or Yemen at least not yet. And if we keep hearing that crazy aunt in the attic, perhaps we never will. If we keep hearing the presence of Vietnam lurking in our hearts and minds, perhaps there will never again be an American war of intervention. That in and of itself would be no small victory.
Foreword
THESE PAGES WERE NOT written in desperation, nor were they written out of boredom, or even, I think, to prove a point, but rather to offset the sinking feeling we all had that some day, when the whole thing was over, there would be nothing remembered except the confusion and the politics.
There is, of course, something else to be remembered.
There was a time the Army hospitals in Japan, to one of which I was assigned, were averaging six to eight thousand patients a month. (During the Tet offensive it had been closer to eleven.) There were days and sometimes weeks when the choppers never stopped coming in, and when they couldnt fly, the Army brought the casualties overland from the Air Force bases in ambulance buses. The surgeons seemed ready for the emergency, and even the internists. But I had been sent to Japan as a pediatrician to serve the children of the dependent military population there.
I soon realized that the troopers they were pulling off those med evac choppers were only children themselves.
Loss is a part of pediatrics. Two infants in four thousand are born with a severe congenital anomaly; fifteen percent of all prematures are mentally retarded; one out of twenty thousand children will get leukemia. The rest you struggle over: the meningitises, the pneumonias, the poisonings, and the accidents. They set the tone, for to save one child is to save the whole thing.
But to save him only to see him blown apart or blinded, to help him grow properly only to have his spinal cord transected, or to have him burned to death, puts all the effort in doubt; the vaccines, the pediatric research, the new techniques and the endless concernsuddenly it all seemed so foolish, so hopeless. To lose a child, at any time along his life, is really to lose the whole thing.
Zama, where I was assigned in September 1968, was a 700-bed hospital with a small pediatric unit of five beds and a nursery. It was the only general Army hospital in Japan. There were internists, anesthesiologists, ophthalmologists, obstetricians, gynecologists, oral surgeons, dermatologists, plastic surgeons, ENT specialists, thoracic surgeons, vascular surgeons, and even an allergist.
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