Stanley Aylett, Holly Aylett

Gebundenes Buch

Surgeon at War: The Second World War Seen from Operating Tables Behind the Front Line

Beschreibung

Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the final capitulation of Nazi Germany. It is a narrative of courage, duty and humanity amid the horror of war.

Autor

Stanley Osborn Aylett, MBE, FRCS (1911 2003), won an open scholarship to King s College Hospital, graduating with first-class honors in Physiology in 1932 and in Medicine in 1935. After six years serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps he went on to become a distinguished consultant surgeon, known for the fastest fingers in the trade, and specializing in the inflammatory bowel disease colitis, for which he pioneered a revolutionary treatment. He was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons and a member of the Academie de Chirurgie Francaise, among other distinctions. He published widely in his field and for his services in opening up Sandbostel concentration camp he received the French Croix d Honneur. After the war he regularly returned to France, for whose people he felt a great affinity."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781784181246
• ISBN-10: 1784181242
• Artikelnr.: 41731514