Diary of World War II

"The Diary of WWII" by Gilman Deering Kirk, M.D., recounts Kirk's experiences serving with the U.S. Army from December 1943 into 1945. He writes movingly about leaving his young wife and two small children, heading abroad by ship for parts unknown and ending up in England, where he served as Chief of Surgery at the 53rd General Hospital in Malvern Wells. His descriptions of receiving and surgically treating the first patients out of Normandy, meeting Sir Arthur Fleming, the founder of penicillin, and serving in England, bring touching reminders to the reader of the hard and challenging times of another era. The diary ends as he departs for Marseilles, France, ready to be shipped to the Pacific just before the war ended.