Summary Of Hilltop Doc By Leonard Adreon

Hilltop Doc, from reviews, is an excellent and exciting book for anyone that loves history or wants a thrilling book to make them feel like they are really part of the story and action. Leonard Adreon was a hospital corpsman during the Korean War and saw and experienced a lot of action and unforgettable events. The topic and reason why Leonard Adreon wrote this book was to create a thrilling story of real events that took place to make the reader feel like they were in the war with him. He also wanted to educate people about the Korean War and really show and talk about how brutal and violent the “forgotten war” really was. I chose this book because I am interested in the Korean War and how much blood was spilled during this war. The book,

Leonard is an American who served in the Korean War and has only written one book, which is the Hilltop Doc book. The book is about his experience and what it was like being on the front line of the action since he was a medic. His experience gives him 100% qualification to write this book. He uses pictures throughout the book to show you some of the images of war and what it was like prepping for it and the civilians living there and looking up to them as heroes. In my opinion, the author is more than qualified to write this book. He served and saved hundreds of lives during the war. He is very descriptive when writing the book and is very detailed and doesn’t leave any information in the book. He wants the reader to feel like they are really in the war and see how bad the conditions really were and the struggle they had while fighting and surviving the

He was gone” (101) Adreon. This shows how much Leonard saw during this war and how much the soldiers went through and the sacrifice they made for their country. Like I said before, I do not believe that this book contains any bias when writing Hilltop Doc, because the book states facts that happened during the war and events that happened that are remembered by the author and other Marines. One example of this is, “Bodies of dead and wounded Chinese lay strewn around as the CCF (Chinese Communist Forces), unlike the Marines, left behind their dead and wounded. The fixed stare on the young Chinese faces has stayed with me since. Most looked like high schoolers. We did our best to treat the Chinese wounded but had to be spared with our morphine so we wouldn’t run out” (7) Adreon. Another quote from the text is, ‘“. a young soldier surprised me. I was putting a splint on his broken leg when he spoke to me in broken English. His comrades had left him behind because he couldn’t walk. His sad, hurt eyes looked up at me as he asked, ‘Will I be OK? Will someone tell my mother and father that I am OK?’ I said I thought he would heal. I brought a small smile to his face when I said he could probably write his parents once treated at the POW camp.” (8)