Author:Richard HookerISBN:884Genre:FictionFile Size:81.78 MBFormat:PDFDownload:289Read:949The book behind the hit TV series and movie. The doctors and nurses who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained, dedicated, and pushed to the brink. And they were young - too young to be doing what they had to do. As Richard Hooker writes in the Foreword, 'A few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees.' Meet the true-life heroes and lunatics who fought in the Korean War, and experience the martini-laced mornings, marathon high jinks, sexual escapades, and that perfectly corrupt football game that every fan of the movie will remember. It's also a story of hard work and skill in the face of enormous pressure and odds. Here is where it all began - the novel that made M.A.S.H a legend.

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Author:Alfred BendixenISBN:351Genre:Literary CriticismFile Size:52.96 MBFormat:PDF, MobiDownload:760Read:822Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day. Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction to this popular literary form currently available Features 37 contributions from a wide range of distinguished literary scholars Includes essays on topics and genres, historical overviews, and key individual works, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, Beloved, and many more.

Author:Dale ShermanISBN:794Genre:Performing ArtsFile Size:33.69 MBFormat:PDF, ePubDownload:188Read:975(FAQ). Here's the lowdown on the unforgettable show about the Forgotten War. M.A.S.H began as a novel written by a surgeon who had been in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. After being rejected multiple times, the novel would go on to become a bestseller, leading to 14 sequels, an Oscar-winning movie that propelled its director and actors to stardom, and a multiple-Emmy-winning television series that lasted nearly four times the length of the war.

FAQ looks at how the novel came to be, its follow-ups in literary form, the creation of the popular movie, and most importantly the television series that transformed comedy and television in the 1970s. Included are chapters on the top-20 pranks of M.A.S.H, the cast members' careers before and after the television show, famous guest appearances, and movies shown in the mess hall. Beyond the fiction, M.A.S.H. FAQ also features a brief chapter to put the war into perspective for easy referral and looks at what led to the Korean War, how such medical units functioned, and how M.A.S.H shaped our perception of the era. Author:Otto F. ApelISBN:056Genre:Biography & AutobiographyFile Size:86.68 MBFormat:PDF, DocsDownload:156Read:994When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children.

A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland.

There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed 'Bedcheck Charlie,' who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series.

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He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the women's shower was 'accidentally' blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair.

On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.

Author:Source WikipediaISBN:Genre:File Size:81.62 MBFormat:PDF, MobiDownload:421Read:395Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Author:RICHARD & BETTY COATEISBN:288Genre:Biography & AutobiographyFile Size:41.29 MBFormat:PDF, DocsDownload:718Read:750The horrors of WWII were still fresh in our minds when the Korean War broke out. June 25, 1950, when the North Korean Communists crossed the Thirty-Eighth Parallel to invade South Korea, changed the course of my life. Betty, her roommate Marian Ott, Richard?s old Trenton buddy and roommate Harvey Seeman, and Richard were driving to?Old Man?s Cave,? Which is about a hundred miles southwest of Columbus.

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It was a day made for poets and we couldn?t have been in a more festive mood. The radio was tuned to the classical music station on WOSU when the program was interrupted with the news that the North Korean Communist troops had crossed the Thirty-Eighth Parallel to invade South Korea. Where?s that? Richard flunked his physical for induction into WWII but would pass muster to fight in what was tragically mislabeled as a mere?police action.?

Richard had proposed marriage to Betty earlier that spring, with plans for a wedding the following December of?50. Little over eight months since their trip to Old Man?s Cave, Richard was among the first draftees to enter the war. The title of this book is apt. Had I been identified, it could never have been used as a symbol of American fighting forces throughout the globe.

Since it was used as a symbol at the peak of the Cold War, the advertising executive who handled the USO account had no way of knowing that I was not one of the 36,0000 who were KIA in the war. And he also presumed that if I survived the war I could never prove it to be me. The AP release stated the photograph was taken by a man with the initials JM.

An elderly woman in the World Wide AP photo department said,?Why, that?s Jimmy Martenhofff!?

This is an absolutely awesome buy! Whether you're a M.A.S.H fan or not, this book will have you chuckling for hours. Very well written with each chapter, in a sense, serving as its own short story (kind of like the episodes in the TV show). I'd recommend this book to all M.A.S.H fans and anyone, really, who likes sarcastic humour, over-the-top pranks, and even those who have an interest in medicine/surgery. The book itself is soft-cover with medium-large print and is probably a fairly quick read for even an average reader. Richard Hooker's story about three army doctors who deal with the stresses of meatball surgery in Korea is a great book.

Never mind that it served as the basis for a movie and one of the most popular TV shows ever; if you think you know the story, you probably don't. The movie and the TV show loom so large in popular culture that it is almost impossible to write a review without some mention of the video version's of Hooker's work.

What we find of the familiar names is that the doctors in the book are neither the anarchists of the movie nor the peaceniks of the series, but simply a few Type A personalities who don't have a lot of respect for authority and are stuck in a tough job without much to occupy their spare time. This is really a study in the difficulty of life performing meatball surgery mere miles from the front line, and the methods men use to cope with the stress of dealing with life and death situations on an hourly basis. I think the most compelling part of this book is the daily wait for the six o'clock helicopter. I won't disclose the plot details, but this little portion of the story breaks the life of the MASH down into its most basic elements. I have to say I enjoyed this book immensely. As is almost always the case with the book form of a story, the characters are so much fuller than they can be on screen. Hooker has a dry, witty sense of humor that is on display throughout the story, but he never fully allows the reader to forget the stress and the pall of death and destruction that hangs over the camp.

Hooker establishes a fine line between humor and horror, and writes about three doctors who couldn't survive the latter without the former. Richard Hooker's M.A.S.H is quite a diverse book. It is part dramatic documentary on Korean War combat surgery and the remarkable achievements of the surgeons in spite of their lack of field training, the indequate medical facilities with which they had to work, and the sub-human conditions under which they had to perform miracles.It is also an extremely broad farce. The human sacrifice of Shakin' Sammy and the Jesus Christ personal appearance tour (actually a beer-swilling, half-naked, bearded Trapper John lashed to a crucifix) are a couple of examples of the exaggerated comic stylings.This interspersing of drama and comedy makes this an interesting if somewhat unsual read and also makes it a perfect subject for dramatization. When it is in comedy zone, it is way out there.

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When it is in drama zone, it is quite serious. According to Hooker's forward, the surgeons in a MASH were exposed to many extremes.

With his writing style, Hooker has exposed us to extremes as well. It is one of my favorite books and I highly recommend it to fans of either the movie or the TV series. The film captures more of the book's bawdy, ribald spirit. The TV show captures more of the sentiment.I also recommend 'MASH: An Army Surgeon In Korea' by Otto F.

Apel if you want the real story of what life in a MASH was. If you are a fan of the film/book/series and think you have an understanding of how rough it was back then, read this. It was a lot worse. An excellent read.Add both of these books to your collection and then thank your lucky stars this isn't 1951 and you are draft eligible.