About this book: "The night air chilled Caspar Wistar as he walked alongside a wagon filled with medical supplies, part of an eleven-thousand-man army creeping toward a small Pennsylvania hamlet. He wondered if General George Washington's medical corps would again run short of wound dressings when battle met the sunrise."

Thus opens the book from Scott McGaugh, author of Midway Magic. In 'Battlefield Angels', McGaugh pays homage to the cadre of medics, corpsmen, nurses, doctors, surgeons, and medical technicians who have provided succour and healing to the more than 40 million warriors who have served in America's armed forces since the nation's founding.

Scott McGaugh tells the story of Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War surgeon considered the father of American combat medicine; Wheeler Lipes, a World War II corpsman and submariner with minimal medical training who conducted the first-ever appendectomy at sea; and of Pfc Monica Brown, only the second woman in sixty years to earn the Silver Star. Through these stories and others, McGaugh traces the captivating evolution of battlefield care, from the Revolutionary War to today's battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

It captures the in-the-trenches moments during which medics and corpsmen fought to save the lives of their comrades. Readers will learn the fascinating history of battlefield medicine and how it has benefited both military and civilian medical practice throughouth American history. This book both chronicles and pays homage to the men and women in arms who fight every day to save the lives of their fellow soldiers, sailors, and marines

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