{"product_id":"a-different-face-of-war-james-g-van-straten-9781574417388","title":"A Different Face of War: Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected by Major General Pat Sargent, Chief of the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, for the Corps Chief's Reading List, May 2016.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Different Face of War\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the DMZ, James G. Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military officers and non-commissioned officers, peasant-class farmers, Buddhist \u003ci\u003ebonzes\u003c\/i\u003e, shopkeepers, scribes, physicians, nurses, the mentally ill, and even political operatives. He sent his wife daily letters from July 1966 through June 1967, describing in impressive detail his experiences, and those letters became the primary source for his memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author describes with great clarity and poignancy the anguish among the survivors when an American cargo plane in bad weather lands short of the Da Nang Air Base runway on Christmas Eve and crashes into a Vietnamese coastal village, killing more than 100 people and destroying their village; the heart-wrenching pleadings of a teenage girl that her shrapnel-ravaged leg not be amputated; and the anger of an American helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to evacuate the wounded, only to have the Vietnamese insist that the dead be given a higher priority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James G. Van Straten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 157441738X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574417388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"James G. Van Straten","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447921389823,"sku":"9781574417388","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b37ae7a5-23bb-45c1-b14a-ff6aea7993b2.jpg?v=1777235717","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-different-face-of-war-james-g-van-straten-9781574417388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}