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Doctor to the Resistance : the heroic true story of an American surgeon and his family in occupied Paris

Vaughan, Hal 1928-2013 (Author).

Summary: "A Maine man, Sumner Waldron - Dr. Jack, as he was known - risked his life and the lives of his wife and teenage son to fight the injustices of Nazi Germany and to help downed Allied flyers escape to freedom. Doctor to the Resistance tells the story of the Jackson family's life in occupied Paris - how a wife and mother struggled with cold and near starvation in the terrible winters of 1941-44; how Dr. Jackson managed against the odds to keep the venerable American Hospital free of Nazi control; and how the Jackson family survived amid the intrigue and terror of underground work and resistance to the Nazis." "Young Phillip Jackson thought it was all "a great game." But the game turns tragically serious as Vichy secret police, who routinely executed resistance fighters, track the family's covert activities and close in on the Jacksons."

Record details

ISBN: 9781612342719
ISBN: 161234271X
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (xviii, 205 pages) : illustrations
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, [2004]
Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (page 199) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	At the Western Front on the Somme : June 1916 -- Coming home, going home -- The debacle : Paris 1940 -- Internment -- Resistance -- Flying fortresses, secret agents -- Betrayal, arrest, deportation -- Ravensbrück, Neuengamme -- SS death ships -- Sacrifice -- Heroes and villains.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.