num_pages: 219
description: Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide—all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart.
language: English
title: MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors
titlecomplete: MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1)
characters: Colonel Slocum, Captain William Layton, Private Lorenzo Boone, Captain Walter "Painless" Koskuisko Waldowski, Benjamin Franklin "Big Benjy" Pierce, Sr., Major Lee, Sergeant Mother Divine, Captain Frank Burns, Father John Patrick "Dago Red" Mulcahy, Ezekiel Bradbury Marston VI, Captain Oliver Wendell "Spearchucker" Jones, Major Jonathan Hobson, Captain Emerson Pinkham, Dr. James Lodge, Sergeant Vollmer, Colonel Horace DeLong, Corporal Ian MacGregor, Tony Riccio, Colonel Ruxton P. Merrill, Dr. Yamamoto, Shaking Sammy, Radar O'Reilly, Captain Banks, Roger the Dodger Danforth, Captain Ezekiel Bradbury "Me Lay" Marston V, Captain "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre, Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Joe Pierce, Angelo Riccio, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake, Major Margaret "Hot-Lips" Houlihan, Captain Ugly John Black, Colonel Cornwall, Pete Rizzo, Captain Leverett Russell, Major George Adams, Ho-Jon, Lieutenant Rafael Rodriguez, Dr. R.C. "Jeeter" Carroll, Captain Bridget "Knocko" McCarthy, Captain Augustus Bedford "Duke" Forrest, Brigadier General Hamilton Hartington Hammond, Corporal Jones, Major Haskell
genres: Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Military Fiction, Comedy, Classics, War, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 8577
places: Korean War
series: M*A*S*H
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks