Battlefield Surgeon Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II【電子書籍】[ Paul A. Kennedy ]

＜p＞In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912?1993) boarded the ＜em＞St. Elena＜/em＞ 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 working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment. He was uncomfortable, struck by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife, for whom he kept detailed diaries to ease his unrelenting loneliness.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Battlefield Surgeon＜/em＞*,* Kennedy's son Christopher has edited his father's journals and provided historical context to produce an invaluable personal chronicle. What emerges is a vivid record of the experiences of a medical officer in the European theater of operations in World War II. Kennedy participated in some of the fiercest action of the war, including Operation Avalanche, the attack on Anz．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る