Invasions - Goering's Panzers and Luftwaffe - an exploding volcano -whores and pimps - VD - the first penicillin - "pros" and short arm inspections - the history of syphilis - terror and romance - amateur obstetrics - hijacking a British whiskey ship - grand opera - starvation - typhus - black markets - a plague of locusts - a Moroccan orgy - Blood and Guts Patton -the Anzio Beachhead and Anzio Annie. This is the tale of a "rear echelon bastard" who was not always in the rear. He learned the tough trade of unloading ships ...
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Invasions - Goering's Panzers and Luftwaffe - an exploding volcano -whores and pimps - VD - the first penicillin - "pros" and short arm inspections - the history of syphilis - terror and romance - amateur obstetrics - hijacking a British whiskey ship - grand opera - starvation - typhus - black markets - a plague of locusts - a Moroccan orgy - Blood and Guts Patton -the Anzio Beachhead and Anzio Annie. This is the tale of a "rear echelon bastard" who was not always in the rear. He learned the tough trade of unloading ships in Casablanca under professional stevedores who disliked college boys. He marveled at the amount of stuff it took to supply an American army: tanks, jeeps and locomotives, thousands of bombs and other high explosives, cases of maps (all marked "top secret," cases of condoms, complete hospitals, typewriters and paper clips, mules and mule shoes. In Naples in the winter of 1943 he witnessed starvation, disease and widespread whoring, devastating air raids, the stink of poverty and widespread despair. He wondered at the toughness of the Neapolitans, their love of opera and their skills in thievery and survival. He won a lottery for Stateside leave. Then VE day intervened and the Army changed his orders to the Pacific! He stalled that with an emergency leave to get married. During the honeymoon the A-bomb was dropped and he was discharged from the Army in time to start medical school.
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Fine. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s) Softcover 2004 edition. Inscribed and signed by Paul Brown the author. Text and covers in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (500 pages)
