The Medical Department (Classic Reprint): Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations - Couverture souple

Graham A. Cosmas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133271904X ISBN 13 : 9781332719044

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How military medicine shaped the Allied victory in Europe—and what it means for today. This nonfiction study examines how the U.S. Army Medical Department organized care in combat zones, from planning and staffing to hospital construction and casualty evacuation.

This volume analyzes the operational and organizational history of Army medicine in the European Theater during World War II. It explains how medical planning integrated with logistics and tactical efforts, how hospitals were built and moved forward, and how casualties were treated and evacuated from the battlefield. It also looks at how medical units adapted to fast-changing warfare, including the challenges of air evacuation and the evolving systems of support in a vast theater.

- Learn how medical planning linked with combat operations and supply chains.
- See how field and general hospitals were organized, expanded, and used in major campaigns.
- Understand the rise of air evacuation, its administration, and the debates over dedicated medical air transport.
- Read about the doctors, nurses, and medical specialists who shaped care in wartime.

Ideal for readers of military history and those interested in the logistics of medical support in war.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Foreword Although readily admitting the importance of combat service support forces, military students and historians alike tend to concentrate on combat and combat support units when studying operations, giving only passing attention to the vital work of the logisticians, signalmen, transport troops, and the rest. This is regrettable, for the operations of combat service support units especially in a global conflict like World War II with its vast distances and varied terrains have much to teach us about modern warfare, lessons that remain of surpassing importance to our profession. The Medical Department: Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations supports the proposition that the experience of medical personnel in war directly stimulates advances in medical science. More importantly, it demonstrates that the organization of health care in the combat zones, including evacuation of the wounded, control of disease among troops and civilian populations, and care of prisoners of war, contributed directly to the Allied victory. The exploits of the doctors, corpsmen, and medical support units provide a model for the planning and organization of medical support in todays A rmy. This volume continues a subseries begun in 1966 with the study of medical support of the Army in the Mediterranean Theater. The Center of Military History will soon complete this project with the publication of a similar study of the very different challenges faced by the Medical Department in the Pacific. I urge our officers and noncommissioned officers to consult these histories and to use them, not only because they provide a clear example of the best in combat service support in wartime but because the principles of medical organization that they examine remain of vital importance to todays military planners and students. Washington, D.C. HAROLD W.
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About the Publish

Biographie de l'auteur

Graham A. Cosmas was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, and received his education from the schools of Leonia, New Jersey, and from Columbia University, Oberlin College, and the University of Wisconsin. After teaching at the Universities of Texas (Austin) and of Guam he joined the staff of the U.S. Marine Corps' History and Museums Division and, since 1979, that of the U.S. Army Center of Military History, serving in 1984-85 as the Harold Keith Johnson Visiting Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Dr. Cosmas is the author of An Army for Empire: The U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War, 1898-1899, and coauthor of U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Vietnamization and Redeployment, 1970-71. He also has published numerous journal articles and book reviews. Albert E. Cowdrey was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and received his education from the schools of that city and from Tulane and Johns Hopkins Universities. He served in the Army as an enlisted man during the years 1957-59. After teaching at Tulane University and at Louisiana State University he entered the government historical programs, working for the Corps of Engineers historical office and, since 1978, for the U.S. Army Center of Military History. His continuing interest in southern history brought him the 1984 Herbert Feis Award of the American Historical Association for his book This Land, This South. His prizewinning history of Army medicine in the Korean War, The Medics' War, has been widely adopted as a text in military medical schools. He also has contributed articles on a variety of historical topics to American, British, Canadian, and international journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133271904X
• ISBN 13: 9781332719044
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 682
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