Left for Dead: A Second Life After Vietnam

by Maureen Anderson, Jon Hovde, Maureen Anderson

Jon Hovde's journey begins with despair and the struggle to stay alive and ends with hope and the inspiration to live. As a twenty-year-old soldier in Vietnam, Hovde lost an arm and a leg when the armored personnel carrier he was driving hit an antitank mine. He was nearly left for dead when the medic at the scene accidentally took his pulse in the arm that had been severed. For weeks, doctors gave Hovde very little chance of survival. When Hovde...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816646244
• ISBN13: 9780816646241
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"