Battlefield Surgeon : Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II /

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"In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kennedy, Paul A. (Paul Andrew), 1912-1993 (Author)
Other Authors: Kennedy, Christopher B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kennedy, Paul A. > (Paul Andrew), > 1912-1993 > Diaries.
United States. > Army. > Auxiliary Surgical Group, 2nd.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > Surgeons > Biography.
United States. > Army. > Auxiliary Surgical Group, 2nd > Biography.
Surgery, Military.
Surgeons.
Military campaigns.
Medical care.
Armed Forces > Surgeons.
MEDICAL > History.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Italie.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Afrique du Nord.
Chirurgie militaire > États-Unis > Biographies.
Chirurgiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Soins medicaux > États-Unis.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Italy.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Africa, North.
Surgery, Military > United States > Biography.
Surgeons > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Medical care > United States.
United States.
Italy.
North Africa.
Personal narratives > American.
Diaries.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Editor's Note; Introduction; 1 Operation Torch and North Africa; 2 Southern Italy and Monte Cassino; 3 Anzio and Rome; 4 Operation Dragoon and the Pursuit up the Valley of the Rhone; 5 Germany, the End of the War, and the Journey Home; Epilogue; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Medical Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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