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THE STORY OF A DIVISION SURGEON IN FRANCE
LtCol Richard Derby, M.C., U.S.A.,
Division Surgeon, Second Division, A.E.F.
VG-. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York & London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1919. First Edition. Binding is tight and interior clean, but a ½” by ½" chip is missing from top of spine (see photo above). Illustrations, 260 pages, including a 37-page appendix listing full text of individual citations awarded to medical personnel of the 2nd Division, including Navy Corpsmen attached to the Marine Brigade. Advertisements for other Putnam’s’ books on the European War at rear of book.
LtCol Derby was Division Surgeon of the 2nd Division, AEF, from its formation in the Bourmont Training Sector in early 1918 to its Occupation duties on the Rhine in 1919. His graphic accounts of the care of the wounded from Belleau Wood, Soissons, St. Mihiel, and Blanc Mont provide a perspective on those engagements found in few other volumes. Derby’s account is of added historical importance because it includes first-hand descriptions of division-level decision making, combined with graphic descriptions of life in the front-line dressing stations under fire. Much information on individual Marines.
A very difficult book to find in any condition.
Never reprinted.
SCARCE.
$85.00
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