A gripping read

For author and Time magazine senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf, the events of December 10, 2003 changed his life forever. While riding on a humvee with US troops as an embedded reporter in Iraq, Weisskoph sees a dark smoking object land near him, he picks it up and feels hot searing heat burn his handâ*" then everything goes dark.

Compelling read :-)

What a fantastic book. Michael Weisskopf was a journalist who went to Iraq to cover stories from Iraq firsthand, but in a cruel twist of fate became an amputee himself when a grenade went off. He lost his hand and it compelled him to write a book about his ordeal and the challenges that soldiers who are also amputees face after the war.

Insightful and Riveting and Revealing

I read this book over the course of one weekend, it was that good. The book gets to the heart of what our severely wounded veterans face from the exact time of the injury on the battlefield to the care they receive in our military hospitals, to their day to day recovery, relationships with their families and how they cope with the loss of not only a limb but in some cases, their whole identity. This book made me realize how much they really do lose and sacrifice to defend this country no matter where or when. I have a new appreciation for the true heroes of our day, the men and women of our military, especially the heroes who lose limbs in the line of duty.