When Hell Froze Over: The Memoir of a Korean War Combat Physician Who Spent 1010 Days in a Communist Prison Camp
William Shadish is a retired plastic surgeon who spent twenty years in the U.S. Army. He served as a combat physician during the Korean War before being captured in 1950. After liberation and his return to active duty in the States in 1953, he specialized in plastic, reconstructive, and hand surgery. Following his army retirement in 1966, he went into private practice in Redding, California, from which he retired in 1992. Today, he and his wife Karen care for their prize-winning roses and an extensive fossil collection.Lewis H. Carlson is a retired professor of history at Western Michigan University. Among his eleven books are Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War: An Oral History of Korean War POWs and We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War. He lives in Austin, Texas, and Ludington, Michigan.