War and Love
A Surgeon's Memoir of Battlefield Medicine with Letters Home
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WAR AND LOVE takes us into the field operating rooms just behind the murderous front lines of World War II. Howard Jones, then a 33-year-old surgeon, Army Medical Corps, records his first experience:
About the Author
Baltimore-born Howard W. Jones Jr. graduated from Amherst College in 1931, received an M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1935, and completed a residency in general surgery in 1940. During World War II, he was chief of a mobile surgical team. Also Baltimore-born Georgeanna Seegar graduated from Goucher College in 1932 and received an M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1936. After distinguished careers at Hopkins, the Joneses helped start a new medical school at Norfolk, Virginia, where they developed the technology that resulted in the first birth in the Americas of a baby conceived through in vitro fertilization.