A Surgeon with Stilwell: Dr. John H. Grindlay and Combat Medicine in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

by Alan K. Lathrop

United States Army surgeon John H. Grindlay served in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II in 1941-1944. Drawing on his unpublished war diary and letters, this book sheds new light on the conduct of battlefield medicine in the tropics and provides a new perspective on such personalities as General Joseph W. Stilwell, the famed "Burma Surgeon" Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, and Chiang Kai-shek. Stilwell's famous 1942 "walkout" retreat from Burma...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476673500
• ISBN13: 9781476673509
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher