Item #2334345 Barbed-Wire Surgeon (Lancer Books 74-849). Alfred A. Weinstein.

Barbed-Wire Surgeon (Lancer Books 74-849)

New York: Lancer Books, 1948. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Item #2334345

First printing. Minor general wear.

317 pp. This is a story of G.I. Joe in prison: how he lived, how he adjusted himself to life under the Nips, what he thought about and what he dreamed about. They were a motley, ragged, hungry throng. Under an ugly patina of filth and starvation, their basic individualities continued to glow feebly and occasionally to break forth into flame. Some were rugged, some were weak. As the months faded into years, the feeble faded out of the picture. In the witch's caldron of a Jap prison, G.I. Joe fought for his life with all the breaks against him. Against a somber tapestry of chronic hunger, starvation, and disease, a thin golden thread of the love of a man and woman weaves back and forth. It disappears for months and years, but is ever present. It snaps and breaks, but reappears more vibrant and glowing. Can a woman's love for her man be responsible for the survival of individuality in the face of pestilence and torture' In its broader aspects this is a tale of mankind with his veneer of civilization stripped away.

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