No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeon's Long Journey Home from the Iraq War

✍ Scribed by Warren, W Lee

• Book ID: 108414480
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780310338048

✦ Synopsis

A War Zone of the SoulDr. W. Lee Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he traded a comfortable if demanding practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone, he was already reeling from months of personal struggle.At the 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Warren realized his experience with trauma was just beginning. In his 120 days in a tent hospital, he was trained in a different specialty ---surviving over a hundred mortar attacks and trying desperately to repair the damages of a war that raged around every detail of every day. No place was safe, and the constant barrage wore down every possible defense, physical or psychological.One day, clad only in a T-shirt, gym shorts, and running shoes, Warren was caught in the open while round after round of mortars shook the earth and shattered the air with their explosions,...