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Medics at War: Military Medicine from Colonial Times to the 21st Century

By: John T Greenwood and F. Clifton Berry Jr.

Reviewed By: Roger Cirillo

Filled with more than 150 color and black-and-white illustrations, this handsome large-format book celebrates frontline medical personnel and the critical role they have played in the success of U.S. armed forces, from the battles of Lexington and Concord in colonial times to the recent battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. The narrative and photographs cover all the links in the military medical chain, beginning with ensuring good health for individual service members to caring for combat casualties and seeing to their return to health.

The book focuses on individual medics who serve with frontline units saving lives and moving casualties from the battle to definitive medical care. Readers accompany the medics and their patients from aid stations to combat support hospitals and air transportable hospitals to hospital ships and high-level medical centers. From horse-drawn ambulances to today’s advanced medevac helicopters and aeromedical evacuation airplanes, the means of evacuating casualties from the battle has evolved dramatically, but the intent remains unchanged. Other important elements this book calls attention to are the military medical innovations that have improved the health of the armed forces—and the civilian population as well. This book is published with the cooperation of the Association of the United States Army.

John T. Greenwood, Ph.D., is the Chief of the Office of Medical History in the Surgeon General’s office at the U.S. Army Medical Command. He is the author of Milestones of Aviation and has published on the history of Army military medicine and military engineering.

F. Clifton Berry Jr., an Army veteran who saw combat in Vietnam, is the author/editor of more than 20 books, the most recent being United States Army at War: 9/11 Through Iraq. He has also served as the editor of several aerospace and defense publications.

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