A Surgeon in Combat: European Theatre - World War II Omaha Beach to Ebensee 1943-1945

A young Harvard doctor’s letters and photographs recount vivid, emotional experiences during Europe’s wartime liberation.

Set against the Allied liberation of Nazi occupied Europe, Dr. William McDermott’s vivid memoir offers a first hand glimpse of history through the eyes of young doctor, fresh from Harvard Medical School. Based on letters he wrote from the front to his young wife, Blanche, back home in Massachusetts, A Surgeon in Combat offers an original, compelling remembrance of war, on...