War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival

Whether you are interested in contemporary history, war, medicine, morality and hope, you should read War Hospital. This nonfiction book about the siege of single town is an inspiring chronicle of true heroism by physicians and nurses in the face of war and its assorted horrors including internecine carnage, genocide and malign indifference. However, I first looked at this site not to see whether others enjoyed reading the... Read Full Review

This is an important, gripping book about doctors in wartime. And it is an impressive, beautifully written first book by Sheri Fink. War Hospital is a powerful, haunting narrative presented in fast-paced, present time, first person narrative that unfolds like a Greek tragedy. This is the story of a group of very young, inexperienced doctors amidst the siege and eventual fall of Srebnenica that ended with genocide in Europe... Read Full Review

I don't think I really understood what the war in Bosnia was all about before reading Dr. Sheri Fink's fabulous new book. She has a marvelous narrative gift. This book reads like a compelling screenplay, yet is marvelously researched and documented. As Chris Hedges wrote in his glowing review in the December 22, 2003 New York Times, Dr. Fink dramatically tells the story of the war by focusing on a small group of brave young... Read Full Review

I picked up War Hospital very casually. I hate to admit that I know very little of the Balkans other than a general feeling that it was war torn and had been for pretty much my whole life. This book changed this general apathy to the region in general and the peoples Croat, Serb, and Muslim in particular. I suggest every single person read this book--not only is it a great introduction to a small part of the Balkan conflicts,... Read Full Review

A highly graphic and very well written account of physicians carrying on the treatment of patients under fire and under the most difficult and stressful conditions during the largely successful genocidal attack and extermination of non-Serbs by the Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica and eastern Bosnia during the Bosnian war of the 1990's. Sherri Fink' account is largely a dispassionate depiction that puts the readers on the scene... Read Full Review