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O Beloved


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O Beloved offers a unique insight into a soldier's experience of war through this collection of letters home to his wife, lavishly illustrated with over a hundred photographs and maps. Dr. David Hirst was a front-line combat surgeon who saw action in some of the fiercest battles of World War II, at Kasserine Pass and Hill 609 in North Africa and Cassino and Anzio in Italy. Despite that, these annotated letters attempt to mask the brutality and horror with everyday life in the field to keep from alarming those at home. Eventually, however, as the war grinds on, the letters darken. Dr. Hirst's letters and photographs have been compiled and annotated by his wife Charlotte and son Stephen and now issued for the first time to the public.
About the Author: Dr. David Hirst was a 34-year-old, small-town physician at the time Pearl Harbor was attacked. By summer, he signed up to serve in the Army Medical Corps, the first doctor in Miamisburg OH to volunteer. Given U. S. Army serial number 01 693 210, he trained in Texas and was sent to England in August 1942 to begin his service in the Fifth Army as an Army doctor, the oldest man in his battalion except for the chaplain, his dear friend Father John Kenney of New York City. Later he served at some of the fiercest battle sites of the war at Kasserine Pass, Hill 609, Monte Cassino, and Anzio in North Africa and Italy. In 1962 he retired from private practice to become the physician for Lebanon Correctional Institution. During his eight years at LCI he trained inmates to work as medical assistants, much as he had trained soldiers to serve as his medics during the war. Stephen Hirst, the editor and compiler of these letters, has also written the award-winning books I Am the Grand Canyon (2006) and Lauren Greasewater's War (2013). In addition, he has written the novel Chasing Antigone (2014).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780692468708
  • Publisher: Muuso Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Muuso Press
  • Edition: Annotated edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 498 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0692468706
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jul 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Letters from the Front 1942-1944
  • Width: 203 mm


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