Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1975. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author would become an internationally recognised heart surgeon and cyberneticist, but when he wrote these diaries he was an inexperienced young surgeon serving in an obscure Russian mobile field hospital in World War II, and his chronicles of the desperate and grisly work he performed under cruel circumstances elevates the suffering and death from the realm of the statistical to that of the human. Translated and adapted by George St. George. Yellow boards, 261 pages. Spine cocked, worn corners/spine ends, edgewear, soiled edges, two tape stains to front end paper, two more to rear end paper, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends, sunned spine, impressions/scratches, general wear..

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Bookseller: Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011783
Title: PPG-2266, A Surgeon's War
Author: Amosoff, Nikolai
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition.
ISBN 10: 0809290553
ISBN 13: 9780809290550
Publisher: Henry Regnery Company
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1975
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: NOISBN, WWII, WORLD WAR 2, ARMY SURGEONS, SURGEON, SURGERY, DIARIES, DIARY, DIARISTS, FIELD HOSPITALS
Bookseller catalogs: Military;

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