Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris

by Hal Vaughan

Book Overview

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American Hospital in Paris, where he quickly became a favorite physician of such Lost Generation figures as Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

During World War II, Jackson, his wife, and their teenage son joined the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574887734
• ISBN13: 9781574887730
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

This Is Why They Call It "The Greatest Generation."

This is the true story of three remarkable people who sacrificed everything they had for what they believed in, and to fight against the evil that was Nazi Germany. Because it is written like a novel, the reader will not be able to put the book down. A must read for any serious student of WWII.