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