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As a doctor, [Jonathan Kaplan] has a particular take on war, neither the passing glance of the journalist nor the day-to-day administrative preoccupations of the aid worker, but a sickening vision of what long-running conflict does to those caught in the crossfire. Contact Wounds, with its descriptions of purulent abscesses, reeking sepsis, frothing pus and saw wire singing through bone, is not for the faint-hearted.
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The Killing Fields
The killing fields Contact Wounds: a war surgeon's education Jonathan Kaplan Picador, 278pp, £17.99
In the past 18 months or so, a new kind of autobiography has become fashionable, perhaps reflecting the public's growing awareness of human...See the full content of this document
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