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

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 Drawing on his unpublished war diary and letters, this book sheds new light on the conduct of battlefield medicine in the tropics and provides a new perspective on such personalities as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 "e;Burma Surgeon"e; Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, and Chiang Kai-shek. Stilwell's famous 1942 "e;walkout"e; 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.