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Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris
by
Hal Vaughan
Maine-born Dr. Sumner Jack Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American Hospital in Paris, where he quickly became a favorite physician of such Lost Generation figures as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Duri...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
January 1st 2004
by Potomac Books
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The history of the world is made up of individuals makin decisions which not only effet themselves but the world around them.
There's a great story -- several great stories, in fact -- condensed into only 168 pages of text, but that's not necessarily a good thing. Also, the writing is a bit overwrought.
The carnage at Lubeck Bay in May 1945 was the most amazing part of the book; I can't believe I'd never heard of it before.
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Hal Vaughan has been a newsman, foreign correspondent, and documentary film producer working in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia since 1957. He served in the U.S. military in World War II and Korea and has held various posts as a U.S. Foreign Service officer. Vaughan is the author of "Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied ...more
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