Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Dressing Station: "A gripping memoir" of a doctor's education on the battlefield (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

Inspired by his father's time as a military surgeon in World War II, Jonathan Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully understaffed South African general hospital in a black township. Fleeing apartheid, he traveled the globe in search of sanctuary, experiencing riots, tropical fevers, political upheava...