MASH

The reader is spared nothing, and at times I shared with the authors an understanding of the emotional effect medical work in a war zone can cause.

~BMJ

The great difference between the MASH on TV and the MASH on the battlefield, Apel and his collegues later felt, was that the latter had casualties

~Booklist review

A superb book.... Reading this fine nonfiction account of an army surgeon in the Korean War will make you wish you had been there treating casualties. It did me!

~Journal of the American Medical Association

Well written and researched, this book provides entertainment as well as historical value.

~Library Journal

Most readers will find Apel's memoirs fascinating, horrifying, humorous, and heartbreaking.

~Library Lane

One of the most readable memoirs that I have come across. A real contribution to the history of the Korean War.

~Mac Coffman

This memoir is about war, but it addresses a different aspect of war: the struggle of men and women in the U.S. Army who were called upon to expend their efforts and their lives preserving human life during this vicious combat.

~McCormick (SC) Messenger

His descriptions are full of detail, often vivid, regularly most critical of the US Medical Corps.

~Medicine, Conflict, and Survival

The authors have skillfully blended the surgeon's personal experiences into the bigger picture of military medicine, providing the reader with an informative and interesting account of the MASH and its impact during the Korean War.

~Military

Exposes the true nature of the Korean conflict from a medical perspective.... An excellent account of the history of MASH units and how they operated in Korea.

~Navy Medicine

Apel shows the true side of the Army hospitals.

~Ohio Today

The book is a wonderful paean to all our men and women who served in Korea.

~Ohioana Quarterly

Provides a close look at the way a MASH functioned.... The Apels have produced a well written and useful book.

~Southern Historian