The Nightingale of Mosul: A Nurse's Journey of Service, Struggle, and War - Hardcover

Luz, Susan; Brotherton, Marcus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607146312 ISBN 13: 9781607146315

Publisher: Kaplan Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The true story of a female soldier in Iraq who was awarded the Bronze Star—not for fighting, but for fighting to care.

She is today's Florence Nightingale. At age 56, Susan Luz was deployed to Iraq. By the time she returned home, she had helped save the lives of 30,000 wounded soldiers, contractors, Iraqi civilians, and detainees. But this was not the first time Luz responded to the call of duty: this is the inspirational story of a life dedicated to service and to the ideal of fighting for what truly matters.

As a young woman, Luz served in the Peace Corps in Brazil, where she experienced the brutality of poverty and violence. As a public health nurse, she has worked in jails, psychiatric wards, and a violent inner city high school. But nothing prepared her for what she would see in Iraq. Working under constant fire, Luz routinely witnessed the most horrific effects of the war. Her dedication to her job earned her the Bronze Star in honor of her selflessness and the life-saving work she carried out under unfathomably difficult circumstances.

Susan Luz is a true hero and her story will resonate in the hearts and minds of readers for generations to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Colonel Susan Luz, 57, is the highest ranking soldier in the 399th Combat Support Hospital, an Army Reserve unit based out of Massachusetts. In 2007 she won the Bronze Star for meritorious service while in Iraq.

Trained as a nurse, she has lived a life devoted to public service and has worked in inner-city schools, jails, and adolescent psychiatric wards. A former Peace Corps volunteer to Brazil, she holds a nursing degree from the University of Rhode Island and a master’s degree in public health from Boston University.

No stranger to military circles, Susan’s father is a World War II veteran who served under General Patton. Susan’s father-in-law is the late George Luz Sr., who was portrayed by actor Rick Gomez in the Band of Brothers HBO miniseries based on Stephen Ambrose’s bestselling book by the same name.

Susan lives with her husband, George Luz Jr., in Rhode Island.

Marcus Brotherton is the author of We Who Are Alive and Remain: untold stories from the Band of Brothers; Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers; and others. As a full-time writer, his specialty is helping people with strong public platforms tell their stories. A former newspaper reporter, Marcuslives with his family in Washington State.

Marcus Brotherton is the author or co-author of 19 books. He has collaborated with Dr. Nancy Heche (mother of Anne Heche), international humanitarian Susan Scott Krabacher, and most recently on We Who Are Alive and Remain, a compilation memoir with 20 of the original Band of Brothers.

From Booklist:

Colonel Luz of the Army Nurse Corps has enjoyed a long, happy marriage to the son of one of the original “Band of Brothers.” She also enjoyed hard-won success in the Peace Corps, as a nurse in an inner-city high school and at a hospital for the criminally insane, in the Army Reserve, and in being there for three nephews with cystic fibrosis. Then in 2006 she went to Iraq and combined public health and psychiatric work with handling a steady stream of casualties from combat and terrorist incidents. And she became the unofficial morale officer, responsible for, among other things, organizing a vocal group among the nurses, in which capacity she earned the moniker that entitles her book. Another Nightingale, the one who founded modern nursing, would have approved of Luz’s work; the army’s approval took the form of the Bronze Star. Readers will most likely approve of her addition to knowledge of the humane aspects of the Iraq War. --Roland Green

About this edition

• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1607146312
• ISBN 13: 9781607146315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256