Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs.PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES:1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.AADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING:This is about a Doctor assigned to the 88th Infantry division before they shipped out to Italy. He is a front line combat doctor attached to the 3rd battalion aid station of the 349th infantry regiment in the 88th Infantry Division. He stays with this unit for the rest of the war. 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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Book Title: Long Walk Through War : a Combat Doctor's Diary
Book Series: Texas a and M University Military History Ser.
MPN: Does Not Apply
Item Length: 9.3 in
Vintage: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8 in
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Topic: Army, Combat, Medical Services, Memoir, Military History, True Military Stories, World War II, Military / World War II, Military / General, Medical
Subjects: History & Military
Item Width: 6.3 in
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: Military & War
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1987
Literary Movement: Does Not Apply
Era: 1940s
Illustrator: Yes
Author: Klaus H. HÜBNER
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat, Biography & Autobiography
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
