In this new book, Survival in the Land of Dysentery: The World War II Experiences of a Red Cross Worker in India, Baroness Katharine Harris van Hogendorp tells of serving with the American Red Cross in World War II. Posted to a jungle base at Chakulia in India, the next two years provided some extraordinary experiences.She tells the moving story of a beautiful, young woman who possessed a great degree of caring and compassion, only to be forced to exist with images of seeing her name on a B-29 Superfortress and being ...
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In this new book, Survival in the Land of Dysentery: The World War II Experiences of a Red Cross Worker in India, Baroness Katharine Harris van Hogendorp tells of serving with the American Red Cross in World War II. Posted to a jungle base at Chakulia in India, the next two years provided some extraordinary experiences.She tells the moving story of a beautiful, young woman who possessed a great degree of caring and compassion, only to be forced to exist with images of seeing her name on a B-29 Superfortress and being surrounded by constant death and suffering.As a classically-trained opera singer, Katie brought good cheer, sustenance and entertainment to British and American troops while enduring heat, illness, pestilence and the dangers present at the China-Burma-India front.Katie recently reflected, Ever since I read the Arabian Nights, I had dreamed of being transported one day on a magic carpet, floating through space to a world of eternal beauty and enchantment. Maybe the closest I came to that experience was when I lived for two weeks on a houseboat in Kashmir, situated in the magnificent, snow-capped Himalaya Mountains. After eighteen months at our base in the jungles of India, another war-weary Red Cross worker, my friend Pat, and I managed to take some leave and get there.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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VG (Inscribed by author and another on front flyleaf. ) Red cloth, gilt letters, white & photographic dust jacket, 150 pp., BW illus. Foreword by Patrick F. Gilbo, Historian, The American Red Cross. The Baroness tells her story of serving for two years at a jungle base at Chakulia in India. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf, and also inscribed by Anne Rienhoff to Horace Freeland Judson (1931-2011), an author and. historian of molecular biology.
