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The author recounts his experiences as a surgeon during World War II, from November of 1944 during the fighting for Alsace-Lorraine to the end of the War, when the men of his unit were among the first into Dachau
Author : Brendan Phibbs
Publisher :
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Surgeons
ISBN : 9780671665746
The author recounts his experiences as a surgeon during World War II, from November of 1944 during the fighting for Alsace-Lorraine to the end of the War, when the men of his unit were among the first into Dachau
Author : United States. Air Force Medical Service
Publisher :
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Sheri Lee Fink
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2004-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0786745754
In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing--and ultimately enlightening--story of these physicians and the three who try to help them: an idealistic internist from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international aid workers will help prevent a massacre; an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded; and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues. With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it?
Author : Andrew Bamji
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781915113023
This book examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War.
Author : Christos Giannou
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Amputees
ISBN :
Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.
Author : Diane Burke Fessler
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1997-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1628952547
No Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation—all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor. This unique oral-history collection makes available to readers an important counterpoint to the seemingly endless discussions of strategy, planning, and troop movement that often characterize discussions of the Second World War.
Author : H D 1882-1960 Gillies
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2018-10-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780342767939
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Author : Mildred A. MacGregor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 047203331X
The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War
Author : Carlo D'Este
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 1996-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060927622
Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This massive work is biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior." --Calvin L. Christman, Dallas Morning News "D'Este tells this story well, and gives us a new understanding of this great and troubled man."-The Wall Street Journal "An instant classic." --Douglas Brinkley, director, Eisenhower Center
Author : William V. McDermott
Publisher : William L. Bauhan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : 9780872331204