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Rule Number Two

Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital

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Rule Number Two

By: Heidi Squier Kraft
Narrated by: Heidi Squier Kraft
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When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer.

One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one." Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected.

Rule Number Two is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.

©2007 Heidi Squier Kraft (P)2024 Little, Brown & Company
Iraq War Military & War War Emotionally Gripping
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"Every American needs to read this."—General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret), former commander of U.S. Central Command

"One of the most amazing books I have ever read..."—Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, USA (Ret), author of On Killing and On Combat
"A necessary but uncomfortable book for anyone wishing to understand."—Jay Freeman, Booklist

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Emotional, touching, Gritty

A beautiful, deeply touching retelling of the human and emotional toll of combat. This book will make you laugh, cry, and be thankful for brave men and women that defend our Nation’s cloth.

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