Perceptions from War: The Enemy Lies Within: One female soldier's intimate story of how Operation Iraqi Freedom II changed her life.

When Nadine Brinton enlisted in the military at 18, she had no idea that war, deployment and PTSD awaited her; from despair to triumph, this is the story of how one young woman overcame the obstacles of combat to become a doctor . As a naïve, high school senior who enlisted in June 2000, Nadine soon found herself in the middle of the Iraqi dessert, skirting IED explosions, watching the dissolution of her young marriage, manning a guard tower on the Tigris River, and managing an increasingly tenuous battle with depression and illness. Part coming-of-age story, part war story, Nadine’s candid experiences chronicle the fate that thousands of U.S. service members have endured. Silent and out-of-view from the American public, their sacrifices are no longer headline news. The memory of their experiences are starting to fade.