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Description: 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 French Resistance. They hid and treated
wounded Allied flyers and Resistance fighters, used the hospital as
a cover for Resistance activities, photographed the German
submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, and helped smuggle plans for the
V-1 rocket to England. Just before the Americans liberated Paris,
however, the family was betrayed to the Gestapo and deported to
German concentration camps. The day before the war ended, tragedy
struck. Doctor to the Resistance is based on recently declassified
records of the French Resistance, the National Archives, family
letters and diaries, and the authors interviews with Dr. Jacksons
son. Hal Vaughan recounts the Jacksons remarkable true story for
the first time. It will captivate history buffs, World War II
aficionados, and anyone interested in the Paris of that fascinating
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| ISBN-10: 1574887734 ISBN-13: 9781574887730 |
Hardback - June 2004 |
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