Ebook: Surgeon at war 1939-45: the Second World War seen from operating tables behind the front line

Cover; Title Page; DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION; AUTHOR'S PREFACE; 1: THE DAYS PRECEDING THE OUTBREAK OF WAR; 2: SETTING UP HOSPITAL IN NORMANDY, FRANCE; 3: THE GERMAN BLITZKRIEG ON BELGIUM AND FRANCE; 4: CREATING A HOSPITAL AT DOVER; 5: ORGANISATION OF THE RAMC; 6: VOYAGE TO SUEZ; 7: LANDING AT SUEZ; 8: A COURT MARTIAL AND SUBSEQUENT POSTING; 9: NON-MEDICAL DUTIES IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL; 10: INCIDENTS AT THE HOSPITAL; 11: DEPARTURE FOR THE DESERT; 12: THE MOVE TO TOBRUK; 13: THE EXODUS FROM ALEXANDRIA; 14: WORK IN A PLASTIC UNIT AND NO. 10 CCS.;Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the fi nal capitulation of Nazi Germany. That war was the last Western conflict in which military surgeons performed operations immediately behind the front line, often in makeshift theatres set up in tents or abandoned, battle-scarred buildings. This memoir records the resilience and resourcefulness of the medical teams, fighting to save each wounded soldier's life, and the advances in.