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“Keeping the Stethoscope, Hanging Up the Uniform” by Steven Davis stepped onto the international stage at the 2026 London Book Fair, held 10–12 March at Olympia, London. This year, the book fair welcomed 1,005 exhibitors and more than 33,000 visitors.
The London Book Fair (LBF) is one of the most prestigious events in the publishing world, uniting authors, publishers, literary agents, and industry professionals from over 100 countries. Far beyond a traditional book fair, it is a global marketplace for the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, film, and digital media — where deals are made, voices are amplified, and new stories find their readers.
This is where authors meet publishers, literary agents pitch to foreign buyers, and book lovers discover their next great read. It is, above all, where ideas become movements.
Taking off the uniform does not end the war. For too many veterans, it is where the hardest battle begins.
“Keeping the Stethoscope, Hanging Up the Uniform” is Steven Davis’s unflinching account of life on two front lines — the controlled chaos of military and civilian emergency rooms, where seconds separate life from death, and the quieter, lonelier battlefield that waits for so many veterans long after their service ends.
Davis writes as both a former Army nurse and a witness. He brings readers into the trauma bay with visceral, unsparing detail — and then into the silence that follows, where too many veterans face despair without the support, understanding, or visibility they deserve. This is not a book of easy comfort or familiar slogans. It is a reckoning with what sacrifice actually costs and what it means to bear it without acknowledgment.
Behind every statistic is a voice. Behind every veteran is a story that “thank you for your service” was never built to hold.
“Keeping the Stethoscope, Hanging Up the Uniform” asks its readers to sit with that truth — and to reconsider what it truly means to support the people who once stood on the front lines on their behalf.
Steven Davis is a former Army nurse whose career placed him at the intersection of military service and emergency medicine — two worlds defined by urgency, sacrifice, and the weight of what goes unseen. He writes with the authority of lived experience and the conviction of someone who believes that honesty, however uncomfortable, is the only place real change begins.
