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Previous Volume 357:2641-2642 December 20, 2007 Number 25

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(Military Monograph 97.) By Carl E. Bartecchi. 433 pp., illustrated. Bennington, VT, Merriam Press, 2007. $39.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978-1-4303-1525-4 (cloth); 978-1-4303-0949-9 (paper).

Dr. Carl Bartecchi was drafted to serve as a doctor early in the Vietnam War, and like many of us who were in Vietnam — a beautiful and exotic land — he has had a continuing desire to learn about and help the country and its people. In A Doctor's Vietnam Journal, Bartecchi writes not only about his year as a flight surgeon on an Army base in Soc Trang but also about how he continues to use his medical expertise to help the Vietnamese without consideration of monetary gain.

Bartecchi arrived at the Dust Off helicopter base in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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