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Product Identifiers
PublisherPen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-101473821703
ISBN-139781473821705
eBay Product ID (ePID)208617677
Product Key Features
Book TitleSurgeon with the Kaiser's Army
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War I, Military
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorStephan Kurt Westmann
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-464732
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal940.48243
SynopsisThe Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian front. Promoted to medical officer, despite being unqualified and barely into his twenties, he is given command of an ambulance train on the Western Front. He treats and operates on wounded of all nationalities and ranks and rescues British and German soldiers after gas attacks on the trenches of the Somme. As medical officer to the German Air Force (von Richthofen Circus) Westmann sees the dangers and effects of aerial combat at first hand. He witnesses the British tank attacks at Cambrai. His writing graphically illustrates life and death in the front line, the carnage and humor that sustained soldiers of all nationalities. Westmann's insights into the social, political, religious, economic and medical aspects of war time life are particularly revealing. The text is enhanced by contemporary photographs.
LC Classification NumberD640
