''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. ''Gripping, moving and thoughtful.
The excellent team of Nichol and Rennell have done it
again''. (Patrick Bishop, author of ''Fighter Boys'').
John Nichol is a former RAF flight lieutenant whose
Tornado bomber was shot down on a mission over Iraq
during the first Gulf War.He was captured and made a
prisoner of war. Tony Rennell is a writer for the
''Daily Mail'' and a former deputy editor of the
''Sunday Times''. Their previous books include ''The
Last Escape'', ''Tail-End Charlies'' and ''Home
Run''. |
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