This book is the famous diary account of a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Marine Corps, Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, who served in the armed forces in China, Burma and India, set up a military hospital, and ended up running a triage/surgery unit in World War II as the allies retreated from the Japanese advance. "No document has described the Burma War more vividly."--Times Literary Supplement "Full of the qualities that make one proud of the potentialities of the human spirit."--New York Herald Tribune