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Surgeon at Arms : Parachuting into Arnhem with the First Airbornes
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kessel, Lipmann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kessel, Lipmann.
- United States. Army Nurse Corps--Biography.
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2011.
- Summary:
- Surgeon at Arms is without doubt one of the most interesting and dramatic personal memoirs to come out of the Second World War. The author, a surgeon, was parachuted into Arnhem with the First Airborne Division. His professional skill was at once tested to the limit and the modest detachment with which he describes serious operations performed under appalling conditions would alone be enough to merit the reissue of the book. But of equal significance is the author's account of his unceasing efforts to stop the Germans evacuating the hospital, a struggle which must inevitably be seen against hi
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Postscript
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781783830503
- 1783830506
- OCLC:
- 865330895
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