Memoirs of a barbed wire surgeon / by Elmer Shabart M.D., F.A.C.S.

Memoirs of a barbed wire surgeon / by Elmer Shabart M.D., F.A.C.S.

Prisoners of war--Philippines--Biography.

Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.

Shabart, Elmer, 1909-.

Surgeons--United States--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Philippines.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

Personal account of a doctor who was called to service in 1941, ostensibly for one year. Instead of that one year, he was shipped to the Philippines and became a prisoner of war when Bataan fell. After two years in Philippine camps, he was moved to Mukden, Manchuria, where he was when the war ended. Despite the lack of medicine and medical facilities, Dr. Shabart tended to the sick prisoners as best as he could, including an appendectomy without proper equipment. While in Mukden, ten colonels were taken by the Japanese and were never seen again. Dr. Shabart believes they may have been used in medical experiments with the notorious Unit 731 (Japan’s germ warfare unit) which was close by.

Shabart, Elmer

Oakland, CA : Regent Press, c1997

1997

21 x 14 cm.

Softbound

1889059021

D 805 .P7 S44 1996

13820

[xiv], 180 p.

ill.