The 50th anniversary edition of Ronald Glasser's classic, with a new foreword by Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster. In this gripping account,Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured dailyby those on the front lines. "The best book to come out of Vietnam."David Mamet Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September 1968, Glasserarrived as a pediatrician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps to care for thechildren of officers and high-ranking government officials.

Thehospital's main mission, however, was to support the war and care forthe wounded. "They all came through the hospitals of Japan . the chopperpilots and the RTO's, the forward observers, the cooks, the medics andthe sergeants. the heroes and the ones under military arrest, the drugaddicts and the killers." At Zama, an average of six to eight thousandpatients were attended to per month, and the death and suffering werestaggering. The soldiers counted their days by the length of theirtour--one year, or 365 days--and they knew, down to the day, how much timethey had left. Glasser tells their stories--of lives shockinglyinterrupted by the tragedies of war--with moving, humane eloquence.