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Author Kennedy, Paul A. (Paul Andrew), 1912-1993, author

Title Battlefield surgeon : life and death on the front lines of World War II / Paul A. Kennedy ; edited by Christopher B. Kennedy ; foreword by Rick Atkinson ; afterword by John T. Greenwood
Published Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series American warriors
American warriors (Lexington, Ky.)
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
Summary "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 by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife, for whom he kept detailed diaries to ease his unrelenting loneliness. In Battlefield Surgeon, 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 Anzio, and Operation Dragoon. He also arrived in Rome the day after the Allied troops, and entered the Dachau concentration camp two days after it was liberated. Despite the enormous success of the popular M*A*S*H franchise, there are still surprisingly few authentic accounts of military doctors and medical practice during wartime. As a young, inexperienced surgeon, Kennedy grappled with cases much more serious and complex than he had ever faced in civilian practice. Featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II historian Rick Atkinson and an afterword by U.S. Army medical historian John T. Greenwood, this remarkable firsthand account offers an essential perspective on the Second World War."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Kennedy, Paul A. (Paul Andrew), 1912-1993 -- Diaries
United States. Army. Auxiliary Surgical Group, 2nd -- Biography
United States. Army -- Surgeons -- Biography
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
United States. Army. Auxiliary Surgical Group, 2nd fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- United States
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography
Surgery, Military -- United States -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
MEDICAL -- History.
Armed Forces -- Surgeons
Medical care
Military campaigns
Surgeons
Surgery, Military
North Africa
Italy
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Diaries
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Kennedy, Christopher B., editor.
LC no. 2016006705
ISBN 0813167248
9780813167244
9780813167251
0813167256
9780813167237
081316723X
Other Titles Life and death on the front lines of World War II