
A Surgeon with Stilwell
by Alan K. Lathrop
"Dr. John H. Grindlay and Combat Medicine in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II"
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Details
War:
World War II
Perspective:
Medics
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
Yes
Region:
Asia
Page Count:
260
Published Date:
2018
ISBN13:
9781476633060
Description
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 Drawing on his unpublished war diary and letters, this book sheds new light on the conduct of battlefield medicine in the tropics and provides a new perspective on such personalities as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 to India is covered, along with the 1943 Allied return to Burma to push the Japanese from the Ledo Road connecting northeast India to southwestern China.