Mission Afghanistan

An Army Doctor's Memoir

Elie Paul Cohen, Jessica Levine

• Publisher: SparkPress
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781943006663
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Elie Paul Cohen, a Franco-British civilian emergency doctor, was in his youth an anti-militarist who evaded conscription. But decades later, his military record comes back to haunt him when it turns up in his professional dossier. In a surreal coincidence, the French, British, and Israeli secret services suddenly become interested in recruiting him, and Cohen accepts the deal the French Army offers: he can settle his accounts by serving as a liaison emergency doctor in Afghanistan. After a year and a half of training, Cohen is in 2011 deployed at Camp Bastion, the largest British Military base since World War II. His mission is twofold: First, to study Damage Control Resuscitation, a new treatment for polytraumatized soldiers that was developed by British doctors in Afghanistan. Second, to share these advanced protocols with the French Military Health Service. Combining elements of spy thriller and adventure story with reflections on the costs of war, Cohen's memoir offers a unique perspective on the conflict in Afghanistan, and on the medical challenges presented by the expansion of terrorism into Europe and America.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Translator’s Introduction
• 1. Leaving for Afghanistan
• 2. The Two Elies
• 3. Rebel
• 4. Promised Land
• 5. The French Army
• 6. Marine Commandos
• 7. Djibouti
• 8. York
• 9. A Season in Afghanistan
• 10. Kandahar
• 11. Camp Bastion
• 12. In the Heat of the Helmand Desert
• 13. Army Medicine
• 14. Life at the Camp
• 15. The Young British Soldier
• 16. Kabul
• 17. Returning to Paris
• Epilogue
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• About the Translator