The unique thing about my writing is how it is informed by my time in the trenches as a surgeon, as well as the vast reading I have done on the history of the Civil War. My father was a veteran of WWII and an amateur war historian, and I grew up surrounded by hundreds of books on military history. I read many of these and my father constantly spoke of the history he had both lived and read. 

I write with a style that is both immediate and intense, bringing the reader onto the battlefield and into the field hospital. I try to write in much the same manner as a fire fighter telling of his time inside a burning building. We all know it'd be hot inside that building, but what about the sparks burning through your clothes and biting at your skin, the close sweat stinging your eyes until blindness threatens, the raspy sound of your ventilator with every suck of breath you take. How about the feel—cool? refreshing?—of the oxygen blowing into your face mask? And what does the fire sound like? Can you hear anything else? Your own pulse maybe?

If you are the kind of person who might like being a voyeur in the emergency room, even for just a short time, you'll find my writing interesting, even compelling. 

Yet, despite all of the intensity alluded to above, there is a certain grace here. The writing is, simply put, beautiful.