An American Nurse Amidst Chaos: The Story of the American University Medical Center during the Lebanese Civil War (inscribed and signed edition)
Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. First edition as is. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FIRST FREE PAGE. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine, fresh dust jacket with minor wear to extremities. Hardcover. 217 pp with photographs. In 1974, when Gladys Mouro left her home in New Hampshire for the American University of Beirut. Less than a year after her arrival, Lebanon's civil conflict erupted and swept her into 15 years of dealing with tragic consequences of war, first as a student nurse and then as an RN at the university's medical center. In these memoirs of nursing the casualties of war amidst the hardships of understaffed and unprotected hospital, Miss Mouro vividly relates the stark details of her experience. Fine / fine. Item #E37436
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