The 344 days of combat of the 88th Infantry Division were part of the bitterly contested struggle for supremacy in Italy during the Second World War. Here is the gripping story of the first selective service division committed to battle in the European Theater, seen from the unique vantage point of a battalion physician. Using notes hastily scribbled on the backs of maps and finished out whenever he was rotated to rear areas for rest, Dr. Klaus Huebner captured in his diary the frustration, fear, boredom, devotion, and ...
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The 344 days of combat of the 88th Infantry Division were part of the bitterly contested struggle for supremacy in Italy during the Second World War. Here is the gripping story of the first selective service division committed to battle in the European Theater, seen from the unique vantage point of a battalion physician. Using notes hastily scribbled on the backs of maps and finished out whenever he was rotated to rear areas for rest, Dr. Klaus Huebner captured in his diary the frustration, fear, boredom, devotion, and anger that were the daily portion of combat infantrymen. The result is a remarkably sustained exposition of combat life. Dr. Huebner traces the 88th's activities from final staging preparations at Fort Sam Houston to North Africa and on up the Italian peninsula to the Brenner Pass in Austria, just fifty-five miles south of the Bavarian hamlet where he was born. Combat began for the Division just north of Naples, Italy. During combat, the medical aid station was set up in any available farmhouse, barn, cave, or clump of trees that offered some protection for treating the wounded. There the battalion surgeon and his aides did what they could under adverse circumstances, gave by their presence alone moral support to the casualties, and came to know well the miseries, emotions, and human drama of infantry soldiers in combat. Dr. Huebner writes: "I walked with the men who carried guns and slugged it out on foot. I treated the wounded where they fell." His story is terse and often tense, a memorable view of battle and the men who tried to heal its wounds right in the field
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B&w illustrations. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. [xvi], [208]pp [bumped top corners to several pages, with light creasing; previous owner name on front free endpaper; faint dampstain to dust jacket around bottom spine]
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Inscribed to previous owner and signed and dated by the author on front endpage. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. Some faint foxing to edges of textblock and a couple of foxed spots to endpapers. Externally, the jacket is Fine, however there is some mild to moderate foxing to the reverse (blank) side.
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Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0890963207. Hardcover with dust jacket. Couple tiny pen ink spots to page edges. Top corners of boards are lightly bumped. Interesting inscription from Guantanomo Bay USAF surgeon to retired US Army Medical Corp. Colonel (physician) on front fly leaf. A few pages have a bit of pen underlining. DJ has light bumping to corners and spine extremeties. Very light surface rubbing. Else DJ clean.; B&W Photographs; 23B; 9.20 X 6.20 X 0.80 inches; 207 pages.