A Surgeon with Stilwell

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 Drawing on his unpublished war diary and letters this book sheds new light on the conduct of battlefield medicine in the tropics and provides a new perspective on such personalities as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