Overview

During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war. Nothing in her training had prepared her for the tropical diseases or the thatched-roof hospital where men spat on the floor, rats were pervasive, and patients used handguns to chase gigantic cockroaches (and wereas likely to sell their medicine as swallow it). The experience was made tolerable by Nurse Camp's romance with one of the airmen who flew the Hump, supplying O.S.S. troops behind Japanese lines and carrying General Joseph Stilwell's Chinese troops to fight the battle of North Burma. She accompanied her future husband on some of his missions. Based in part on letters she wrote to her parents, this is the poignant story of one nurse's experience in World War II.

Full Product Details

Author:   LaVonne Telshaw Camp
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.222kg
ISBN:  

9780786472857

ISBN 10:   0786472855
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   18 October 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword by Connie L. Slewitzke, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Retired      Introduction      1 AT WAR IN THE FAR EAST      2 OUR ASSAM DRAGON HOME      3 A DATE WITH RED      4 WHERE IT ALL STARTED      5 ACROSS THE BLUE PACIFIC      6 THE 14TH EVACUATION HOSPITAL      7 NIGHT DUTY ON THE WARD      8 HORSEBACK RIDING IN THE JUNGLE      9 A VISIT WITH RED      10 A TRIP TO CALCUTTA      11 SHOPPING FOR BOOTS WITH A BRITISH COLONEL      12 OVER THE HUMP TO CHINA      13 A VISIT FROM A JUNGLE BEAST      14 A SURREPTITIOUS FLIGHT TO HSIAN, CHINA      15 MALAISE AT THE 20TH GENERAL HOSPITAL IN LEDO      16 A REGULAR ARMY NURSE AT THE 142ND GENERAL HOSPITAL      17 LIFE IN CALCUTTA      18 RED STOPS BY      19 A NEW YEAR’S EVE ESCAPADE      20 LEFT BEHIND IN INDIA      21 GOING HOME      Epilogue      Index     

Reviews

a wonderful picture of the living conditions at an evacuation hospital in the jungle.... [Camp] writes colorfully about the Chinese patients, Army life, and her impressions of the setting and the culture...a welcome addition to the collection of works on women's experiences in World War II --<i>H-Net Review</i>; an amazing and well-written narrative...highly recommended --<i>World War II Air Commando</i>; a model for personal narratives: competently and interestingly written, fair to her subjects, honestly introspective, carefully researched.... Well illustrated --<i>The Cellar Book Shop</i>; every reader, male or female, nurse or patient, will be engrossed in this woman's war experiences --<i>CBIVA Sound-Off.</i>

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LaVonne Telshaw Camp lives in Moorestown, New Jersey.

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