MEDIC: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE FINAL DAYS OF WORLD WAR II

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Publisher: PENGUINBOOKS
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Features: In 1944, eighteen-year-old university student Leo Litwak finds himself in the middle of the waning European war, a medic trained to save lives but often powerless to do much more than watch lives slip away. Instead of a rifle, he carries bandages, sulfapowder, morphine—and only an M1 carbine to protect him. This is the true story of real people in war—friends and thieves, dreamers and killers, jokers and heroes—as well as the personal account of a young American plucked from a sheltered, comfortable life and sent to a foreign land to save the men fighting to save the world. Few books have portrayed the grit and wonder of war with such eloquence, and still fewer have shown how war looks through the eyes of a soldier whose mission was saving lives, not taking them.