In Mesopotamia

In this book, the author recounts details of the British campaign during World War I in southern Iraq from his perspective as an officer in the British Medical Corps. He presents, in a smooth, beautiful, and moving literary style, the details of his daily life while building the field hospital in southern Iraq, his daily work, and his follow-up of medical cases. In the chapters, he analyzes in great and surprising depth the suffering of soldiers from the heat, scorching sun, and disease, al...