Author: MOURO, GLADYS
Title: An American Nurse Amidst Chaos [American University of Beirut First Edition]
Description: Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0815660995. Hardcover is black with gold lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight. Gold stamped, on the front is 'American University of Beirut'. This is the first edition of this book. Illustrated with 13 color and b/w photographs. Sticker on the back cover has the ISBN. "At the height of Lebanon's civil war in the 1980's, when every other American working at the American University of Beirut had been driven out of the country by hostage-taking, assassinations and threats, a lone American woman remained, earning a reputation among her colleagues at the university's medical center, and among victims of the fighting, as a ministering angel...The book describes how the war made the medical center in effect not only a field hospital, but also a target. Wards and clinics were blasted by artillery shells, car bombs exploded outside the entrance..." [By John F. Burns, April 3, 2000; NY Times International]. But while the American hostages became household names at home, Gladys Mouro, nursing director at the university's medical center, was virtually unknown in her native land, and remains so. ; Photographs; 1 x 8.9 x 6.3 Inches; xiii, 217 pages; Hardcover has light shelf wear and bumping. DJ has rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear, bumping, few tiny nicks; in a mylar cover.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

Keywords: 0815660995 Autobiography; Biography; Lebanon; Middle East History; Nurses; Heroes; Civil Wars; Medical Care; American History; Women/Womens' History Medicine/Health/Health Care Cultural History Education Islam History American History Geography Biography/