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

by Paul A. Kennedy

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081316723X
• ISBN13: 9780813167237
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up