Members of our Editorial Board have recommended the following books, publications, and articles for those interested in the history of military surgery and its impact on the surgical profession as a whole. You will find that not as much has changed as you might think in caring for casualties, as new surgeons find ‘new wounds’ and rediscover old lessons.

Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty (Textbook of Military Medicine: Surgical Combat Casualty Care, Part IV)
by the Department of the Army, Office of the Surgeon General
R.F. Bellamy and R. Zajtchuk, eds; 1995

Battle casualties: Incidence, Mortality, and Logistic Considerations
by M.E. DeBakey and G.W. Beebe; 1952.

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine 
by Ira Rutkow; 2005.

Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast and Burn Injuries (Textbook of Military Medicine: Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty, Volume 5 Part I)
by the Department of the Army, Office of the Surgeon General
R.F. Bellamy and R. Zajtchuk, eds; 1991.

Crisis Fleeting
by J.H. Stone; 1969.

Emergency War Surgery, 2nd ed.
T.E. Bowen and R.F. Bellamy, eds; 1988.

Emergency War Surgery: First United States Revision of the Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook; 1975.

Emergency War Surgery: NATO Handbook; 1958.

Emergency War Surgery: Third United States Revision of the Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook; 2004.

Field Surgery Pocket Book 
by N.G. Kirby and G. Blackburn; 1981.

Field Surgery in Total War, Third Impression, June 1942 ed.
Hamish Hamilton Medical books; 1941.

Larrey: Surgeon to Napoleon’s Imperial Guard 
by Robert Richardson; 2002.

MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea
by Otto F. Apel and Pat Apel; 1998.

Modern War Surgery 
by H. Bailey; 1942.

Surgeon to Soldiers: Diary and Records of the Surgical Consultant, Allied Force Headquarters, World War II 
by E.D. Churchill; 1972.

Surgery in War
by T.H.J. Goodwin and A.J. Hull; 1918.
Surgery in World War II: Vascular Surgery
by US Army Medical Department, Historical Division
M.E. DeBakey and D.C. Elkin, eds; 1955.

Surgery in World War II: Volume II—General Surgery 
by the Office of the Surgeon General
J.B. Coates, ed; 1955.

United States Army in the Korean War: The Medics War
by A.E. Cowdrey; 1987.

Vascular Trauma
by N.M. Rich and F.C. Spencer; 1978.

Vascular Trauma, 2nd ed.
By N.M. Rich, K.L. Mattox, and A. Hirshberg; 2004.

Wound Ballistics for World War II
by J.C. Beyer, J.B. Coates, L.D. Heaton; 1962.

Articles
Battle injuries of the arteries in World War II
by M.E. DeBakey and F.A. Simeone
Published in Ann Surg, 1946; 534-571.

Military Surgery in World War II—a backward glance and a forward look
by M.E. DeBakey
Published in NEJM, 1947; 236(10): 341-350.

The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH): a military and surgical legacy
by Booker King
Published in J Natl Med Assoc; 2005; 97(5):648-656.