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American Military Medicine in World War II
Albert E. Cowdrey
ISBN: 9780029068359
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Fought on almost every continent, the Second World War confronted American GIs with unprecedented threats to life and health posed by combat on Arctic ice floes and African deserts, steamy island jungles and remote mountain villages, the stratosphere and the depths of the sea. Service men were assaulted by frostbite, malaria, shrapnel, and landmines. But the demands of war provoked unparalleled medical advances in the years 1941…
Fought on almost every continent, World War II confronted American GIs with the unprecedented threats to life and health posed by combat on Arctic ice floes and African deserts, in steamy jungles and remote mountain villages, in the stratosphere and the depths of the sea. This book is a history of military medicine in that war. Penicillin brought the anti-biotic revolution to the battlefield, air evacuation plucked the wounded from jungles and deserts, and a unique system brought blood, still fresh, from America to soldiers all over the world. It chronicles the skill, courage, and dedication or a formidable force of surgeons, physicians, enlisted medics, psychiatrists, and nurses, who achieved a spectacular victory.
| ISBN | 0029068355 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | ISBN13 | 9780029068359
(What's this?) | | Pages | 400 | | Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 600 | | Imprint | Simon & Schuster Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 04 Jul 1994 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | D807.U6C68 | | Spine width (mm) | 36 | | DEWEY | 355.3450973 | | Academic level | General |
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