La Courtine: A Surgeon's Memoir

The book is a memoir of a field surgeon written in the first person as it happened. From his receipt of his draft notice until his return after the war, the book reveals William C. Kintner, Sr.'s epic struggles as a field surgeon. A practicing physician with a wife and son, and another child on the way, the U.S. Government drafts him into the Washington State National Guard in 1917. Two months after receipt of his draft notice he is inducted into the U.S. Army, goes to boot camp in North Ca...