Medic: Saving Lives - from Dunkirk to Afghanistan
by Tony Nichol John & Rennell
Penguin / Viking | 2009 | ISBN-10: 0670916048 | ePUB | 22.4 mb

Medic: Saving Lives by John Nichol and Tony Rennell is the story of those brave men - and, increasingly in this day and age, women - who go to war armed with bandages not bombs, scalpels not swords, and put saving life above taking life. Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger - to run into battle to rescue the wounded and to risk their own lives to try and save the dying. Doctors, nurses, medics and stretcher bearers go where the bullets are thickest, through bomb alleys and mine fields, ducking mortars and rockets, wherever someone is hit and the shout goes up - 'Medic! We need a medic over here!' War at its rawest is their domain, an ugly place of shattered bodies, severed limbs, broken heads and death. Wherever the cry of 'Medic!' is heard, it will be answered. From the beaches of Dunkirk to the desert towns of Afghanistan, there can be no nobler cause. 

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART I : INTRODUCTION
1. Saving Sergeant Major Stockton
2. Inhumanity
PART II: THE SECOND WORLD WAR
3. Overwhelmed
4. Bamboo Surgeons
5. Desert Doctors
6. Stout Hearts
7. Bravest of the Brave
PART III: THE FALKLANDS WAR
8. A Long Way from Home
9. Battle Stations
10. Fire Down Below
11. Gaining the High Ground
PART IV: IRAQ
12. Bitter Pills
13. Under Siege
14. A Woman’s Place
PART V: AFGHANISTAN
15. On Afghanistan’s Plains…
16. Where Angels Fear to Tread…
17. Shifting Sands
PART VI: AFTERMATH
18. Scars That Will Not Heal
Glossary
Notes
References      
Index
 
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