Author: Geoffrey V. Gill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910837092
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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The 'Death Railway' was very well named. More correctly called the Burma or Thai-Burma Railway, it was a major project during Allied Far East imprisonment under the Japanese. Over 60,000 prisoners worked on its construction, the majority of whom were British, and some 20 per cent died before release in 1945. Working conditions were appalling, the climate inhospitable, and food supplies grossly inadequate, making the POWs terribly vulnerable to a plethora of tropical infections and syndromes of malnutrition. No medical care was given by their Japanese captors, and it fell to the Allied POW doctors and medical orderlies to treat the sick, which they did with little in the way of medical equipment or drugs.
Author: Meg Parkes
Publisher: Carnegie Pub.
ISBN: 9781910837009
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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'Captive Memories' charts the fascinating history of the relationship between the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Far East POW veterans, using eyewitness accounts and personal perspectives of those involved.
Author: United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199268592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital. All aspects of medical work are covered, including the prevention of disease, and the disposal and treatment of casualties.Harrison argues that the medical services played a major role in the Allied victory enabling the British Army to keep a higher proportion of troops in the field than its opponents. Assuming no previous knowledge of either medical or military history, Medicine and Victory provides an accessible introduction to a vitally important, yet too often neglected aspect of the Second World War.
Author: John Boyd Coates (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Preventive
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Author: United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: United States. Army Medical Department (1968- ). Historical Unit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine, Preventive
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Author: United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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