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"Against his will they made him a medic. Instead of a rifle, they gave him bandages and gauze, sulfa powder and morphine. They trained him to save lives and ease pain and they sent him into the hot center of the war in Europe with only a red cross to protect him. Through Belgium, the Sauer River, the Moselle Valley, and Saxony, he tended to men he admired and feared. In the clash and riot of war he came to know courage, terror, brutality, humor, and grace, and at the end he was changed.";Cover -- Also by Leo Litwak -- Copyright -- Dedications -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Leaving -- Chapter 2 Baptism -- Chapter 3 Belgian Winter, 1945 -- Chapter 4 Across the River -- Chapter 5 Lucca Said -- Chapter 6 Paris Leave, 1945 -- Chapter 7 Songs of War -- Chapter 8 Displaced in Grossdorf -- Chapter 9 The Factory -- Chapter 10 Russians -- Chapter 11 May 8 -- Chapter 12 Leaving Grossdorf -- Chapter 13 Dissolution.;"This is the true story of Leo Litwak, an award-winning novelist and former WWII combat medic. It's the story of real people in war: friends, saints, dreamers, thieves, jokers, killers, revolutionaries, and heroes. And it's the view in depth of a young American plucked from a cozy campus and sent to a foreign land to save the men who intended to save the world."--Jacket.
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