Ronald J Glasser: 6 books

An army doctor’s classic Vietnam War memoir—a National Book Award Finalist and “a book of great emotional impact”—plus two powerful novels (The New York Times).   Published in 1971 with the Vietnam War still raging, Ronald Glasser’s unflinching memoir of one doctor’s experience with...

For barely more that a hundred years, man has been unraveling one of the greatest mysteries in medicine - the incredible sage of how the body defends itself against disease. It is a story of awesome intricacy and ancient, relentless battle, of human courage and often - tragic ignorance. For...

National Book Award Finalist: The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an army doctor—“a book of great emotional impact” (The New York Times). In 1968, as a serviceman in the Vietnam War, Dr. Ronald Glasser was sent to Japan to work at the US Army hospital at Camp Zama. It was the...

Glasser sheds light on the profound wounds, physical and emotional, that our troops face in Iraq. In this gripping account of the human cost of the war in Iraq, Dr. Ronald Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured daily by the troops on the ground. Written by the author...

The powerful story of an unlikely friendship and a doctor’s re-education on the battlefields of the Vietnam War Fresh out of medical school and planning to enter academia, David pragmatically applies to serve in the US Army, thinking he would rather work in a stateside military hospital than...

From the author of 365 Days comes a poignant, personally inspired tale of a rookie doctor fighting for the life of a desperately ill young girl—a story that grows ever more relevant in this world of increasingly sophisticated and technical medical care In this riveting and passionately rendered...