Medic cover art

Medic

Saving Lives from Dunkirk to Afghanistan

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Medic

By: John Nichol, Eleo Gordon, Tony Rennell
Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Doctors, nurses, medics, and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for assistance goes up. Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger – to risk their own lives as they try to save the dying.

War at its rawest is their domain, an ugly place of shattered bodies, severed limbs and death. They fulfil society’s vital pledge to its warriors that they will not be abandoned on the battlefield. Yet, more often than not, what they do goes unnoticed – except by those who survive because of their extraordinary courage and skill. This is the story of those brave men and women who go to war armed with bandages not bombs, and put saving life above taking life.

©2009 John Nichol and Tony Rennell (P)2010 Soundings Military

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Combat Doctor cover art
Eject! Eject! cover art
Para-Medic cover art
Rescue Pilot cover art
The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF’s Bloodiest Raid on Hitler’s Germany cover art
The Resilience Shield cover art
First into Action cover art
We Were Warriors cover art
Sniper One cover art
Three Days in June cover art
Never Will I Die cover art
Forgotten Voices of the Falklands cover art
Let Not the Deep cover art
Soldier ‘I’ cover art
Red Devils cover art
SAS: Sea King Down cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Very well read and an eye opener to what really went on with those in the military medical field

Great listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Compelling narrative concerning history and development of medical care from point of injury to rehabilitation and recovery. A must for anyone considering a career as military medic or just interested in pre hospital care in extraordinary circumstances.

Compelling and accurate

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fantastic book shame it’s narrated buy a toff who sound like he’s got a mouth full of werthers originals and can’t pronounce districts in Afghanistan properly

Great book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book was absolutely fascinating, I couldn’t stop listening. Anyone would find this book interesting I would say, it’s emotionally raw and written from the first hand experiences of medics on the battlefield journaling for their own sanity. An ideal book for anyone with an interest in first aid, medicine and experience of war, but everyone should hear the experiences in this book to truly appreciate and try to understand even slightly what those who fought for this country went through to get to where we are now.

Brilliant book and couldn’t have chosen a better reader!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

The title of this book may be a bit dull, but the stories of these brave Men and Women in what may be the worst time in their lives is nothing short of amazing. From the Second World War right up to current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan this book tell of the trials and tribulations of being a medic be they Doctor or enlisted soldier they all play their part. Well worth listening to.

Have you listened to any of Michael Tudor Barnes’s other performances? How does this one compare?

No I haven't

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Parts of the story, because it is about real life are very moving but other parts show the Irrepressible spirit of the service men and women

One of the best books ever.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews