The Agony of Heroes - Medical Care for America's Besieged Legions from Bataan to Khe Sanh

From the heat and disease-ridden jungles of Bataan, the precarious beachhead of Anzio, the encircled town of Bastogne, the frozen fields of Chosin, and the forsaken plateau of Khe Sanh, doctors and nurses worked under intense conditions with whatever means at hand, to staunch bleeding, repair damage, and resurrect the dying. The inspirational and compelling stories of the doctors, nurses, corpsmen, aides, and others who braved the most frightening conditions in order to save lives.

About the author

THOMAS S. HELLING, MD, is Professor of Surgery and Head, Division of General Surgery, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. A graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, he served in the Army Medical Corps from 1991 to 2000. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the American Surgical Association. He is author of Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War: Doctors, Damage Control, and America's Wounded 1941-1945 and author or co-author of over 110 scientific articles.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas S Helling, Thomas S. Helling
• Publisher: Westholme Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781594163203
• ISBN: 978-1-59416-320-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 745 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerika, Militärgeschichte, Intensivmedizin und Chirurgie, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Critical Care, History - Military / War, HISTORY / Military / United States