Ronald J. Glasser
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Ronald J. Glasser is an American doctor and author, most famous for his book 365 Days, chronicling his tour of duty as an Army doctor during the Vietnam War.
Written in 1971, the book became a best-seller. William Styron, writing in the Washington Monthly, called it
- "a moving account about tremendous courage and often immeasurable suffering...[a] valuable and redemptive work."
Thomas Lask, in the New York Times, said,
- "Its quiet eloquence [and] factual precision...make it a book of great emotional impact."
365 Days has been translated into nine languages and its widely considered one of the classic volumes on America's involvement in Vietnam.
In June 2006 , Glasser, a Minneapolis physician, published his seventh book, Wounded: Vietnam to Iraq. In his foreword, Glasser writes,
- "These stories are true. I was part of some of them; the rest belonged to others. What was so troubling was not what I saw or heard, but that it all kept happening again and again... As for me, none of this was written out of pique or anger, but to give those caught up in this terrible enterprise something all their own, something they could give to others and say, 'this is what happened.'"
Lieutenant General Hal Moore, a battalion commander in Vietnam and the coauthor of We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young, says of Wounded,
- "Ron Glasser has written a compelling, riveting, and truly great book, which America needs now. Superbly researched and heart-rending....Well done."
