A World of Hurt: Between Innocence & Arrogance in Vietnam

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Summary: Mary Powell shows her nursing soul
Review: Read it in one night! Different tone of other Vietnam nursing books I have read. Shows us what she felt as she went and how the world was already treating the vets who were coming back. Mary seems to have remained true to her nursing while understanding the underhandedness of the political structure of the war. Appears to have psychologically been able to go on with her life in spite of what she had gone through. Again, I am sorry I was in junior and senior high during Vietnam, because I would have been there with her.

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Summary: The Real Deal
Review: With this slim book, Mary Reynolds Powell gives us a true and poignant picture of her year as a nurse in Viet Nam. She writes with simple elegance and fine attention to detail, and her images and words bear a memorable impact. For those who think of wars as glorious, and feel that the truth of combat lies in military strategy, this is a sobering account. Believe what you read here; this is the Real Deal.