Anand Kartha MD, MSc, Hospitalist and Director of Medical Consultation Service at the VA was awarded this year’s David Littman Award. The award is given to a physician at the VA who demonstrates outstanding dedication to the VA's patients and its mission.
Dr. Kartha was a recipient of a Primary Care (GIM/FM) Academic Fellowship at the Boston University Medical Campus. His years in the Fellowship were 2003-2005, and he spent them at the
Anand Kartha, MD, MSc, VA Boston Healthcare System, 1400 VFW Parkway, Mail Stop 111, West Roxbury, MA 02132.
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Frances Richey: The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War
John Hollander, Editor: War Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Max Egremont: Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
Phillip Mahony, Editor: From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Richard Marius, Editor: The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry: From Whitman to Walcott
Rudyard Kipling: War Stories and Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
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- W. D. Ehrhart, Editor: Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War
W. D. Ehrhart, Editor: Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War
William Stafford: Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
Photojournalists on War
Jeff L. Rosenheim: Photography and the American Civil War (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
George Sullivan: In the Wake of Battle: The Civil War Images of Mathew Brady
Peter Howe: Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
Reuel Golden: Photojournalism: 150 Years of Outstanding Press Photography
Richard Whelan: Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph)
Devin Friedman: This Is Our War: A Soldiers' Portfolio: Servicemen's Photographs of Life in Iraq
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
Thorne Anderson: Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq
Alan Huffman: Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer
Michael Kamber: Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq
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Military Sexual Trauma Resources
Kristen Zaleski: Understanding and Treating Military Sexual Trauma (Focus on Sexuality Research)
Terri Spahr Nelson: For Love of Country: Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military
Military Sexual Trauma: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
Helen Benedict: The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
Mic Hunter: Honor Betrayed: Sexual Abuse in America's Military
1st Person Narratives - Iraq & Afghanistan
Matt Gallagher, editor: Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
Aaron Glantz: The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
Ashley Gilbertson: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
Bing West: No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
Brandon Friedman: The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War
Cdr. Richard Jadick: On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story
Clint Van Winkle: Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Col. Kim Olson USAF (Ret.): Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace
Colby Buzzell: Thank You For Being Expendable: And Other Experiences (Byliner Selects)
Craig M. Mullaney: The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
David J. Danelo: Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq
Devin Friedman: This Is Our War: A Soldiers' Portfolio: Servicemen's Photographs of Life in Iraq
Donovan Campbell: Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
Heidi Squier Kraft: Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
Jason Christopher Hartley: Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq
Jason Christopher Hartley: Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq
Jeremiah Workman: Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption
Jim Lommasson: Exit Wounds: Soldiers' Stories - Life after Iraq and Afghanistan
Kayla Williams: Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
Kayla Williams: Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
Kelly Kennedy: They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq
Kirsten Holmstedt: Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
Kirsten Holmstedt: The Girls Come Marching Home: The Saga of Women Returning from the War in Iraq
Lily Burana: I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War and Other Battles
Luis Carlos Montalván: Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
M. B. Wilmot: Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism
Matthew Currier Burden: The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Michael Weisskopf: Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57
Nate Self: Two Wars: One Hero's Fight on Two Fronts--Abroad and Within
Nathaniel C. Fick: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Patrick K. O'Donnell: We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah
Paul Rieckhoff: Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective
Sean Michael Flynn: The Fighting 69th: From Ground Zero to Baghdad
Sean Naylor: Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
Tim Pritchard: Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War
Trish Wood: What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It
Tyler E. Boudreau: Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine (Feral House)
USMC, Maj. Seth W. B. Folsom: The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq
1st Person Narratives - Gulf War
1st Person Narratives - Vietnam
Horst Faas and Tim Page, Editors: Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
Al Santoli: Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
Carey J. Spearman: 36 Years and a Wake-up: An American Returns to Vietnam
David W. Powell: My Tour in Hell: A Marine's Battle with Combat Trauma (Reflections of History)
Doug Peacock: Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness
Frederick Downs: The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
Frederick K. Graham: The Bamboo Chest: An Adventure in Healing the Trauma of War
Gerald Nicosia: Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement
- Harry Kieninger: When can we come home?: Understanding the Viet Nam veteran
Nathaniel Tripp: Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam
Paul Budra, Editor; Michael Zeitlin, Editor: Soldier Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative
- Robert Jay Lifton: HOME FROM THE WAR Vietnam Veterans Neither Victims nor Executioners
Robert Mason: Chickenhawk: Back in the World Again: Life After Vietnam
- Shad Meshad: Captain for Dark Mornings : A True Story
1st Person Narratives - Korean War
1st Person Narratives - WWII
Dick Winters: Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Robert Leckie: Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Emily Yellin: Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
Walter Cronkite IV: Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home
- J. Allen Gray: The Warriors
1st Person Narratives - WWI
1st Person Narratives - Civil War
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