In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War

In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War - Paperback

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In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War
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In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War - Paperback

In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War - Paperback

by Itzhak Brook
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Book Overview

October 1973: A young physician in Israel prepares to celebrate the Jewish High Holidays with his wife and children. Suddenly a military invasion changes his life forever.This book chronicles the author's transformation from a civilian to a wartime doctor. In vivid personal details, the author Itzhak Brook, a veteran of both the Israeli Defense Forces and the United States Navy, recounts his first experience in war. He describes his own doubt and misgivings of being a physician facing the daily struggle of survival in the Sinai battle zone. Expecting to heal his soldiers' physical combat wounds, Brook unexpectedly must address his soldiers' psychological battlefield trauma. In unvarnished details from the mundane to the catastrophic, he describes his perspective of a war that shaped his own life, and his nation's fragile identity.
ISBN9781466385443
Author Itzhak Brook
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages182
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War

In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War - Paperback

In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War - Paperback

By Itzhak Brook

About Itzhak Brook

Itzhak Brook, MD, MSc, is a Professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington DC. He was born and raised in Haifa, Israel and graduated from the Hareali Haivri High School, earning his medical degree from Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Medicine, in Jerusalem. Dr Brook completed a residency in pediatrics at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, Israel. He served in the Israeli army as a battalion physician during the Yom Kippur war in 1973. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. Dr. Brook served in the Medical Corp of the US Navy for 27 years. He has authored several hundred publications in scientific journals and ten textbooks. Dr. Brook also authored the book: "My voice - a physician's personal experience with throat cancer."

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