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A review by jemppu
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
4.0
Captivatingly genuine and straightforward recollections of a medical worker's encounter with war. The matter-of-factness in reciting procedures and circumstances, and the frank objectiveness in recounting attitudes and gruesome war acts, convey a very realistic been-there-seen-things manner of someone put through the experience of serving their duty in unpreceded, unavoidable and unfortunate circumstances.
The supernatural - the aspect one worried might murk things unnecessarily - was also approached compellingly subtly, in a hallucinatory fashion, which rather worked to enhance the confusion and surrealism of the individual cognitive experience; in an effective contrast to the reality of events.
Perhaps a bit carefully streamlined with its narrative presentation; not the most involved in morally complex examinations. Never the less, a commendably collected 'memoir' of, and worthy tribute to, pacific war efforts and compassionate conduct. As well as an affecting reminder of the difficulties in recovery.
The supernatural - the aspect one worried might murk things unnecessarily - was also approached compellingly subtly, in a hallucinatory fashion, which rather worked to enhance the confusion and surrealism of the individual cognitive experience; in an effective contrast to the reality of events.
Perhaps a bit carefully streamlined with its narrative presentation; not the most involved in morally complex examinations. Never the less, a commendably collected 'memoir' of, and worthy tribute to, pacific war efforts and compassionate conduct. As well as an affecting reminder of the difficulties in recovery.