Doctor to the Resistance

by Vaughan, Hal

• ISBN13: 9781574887730
• ISBN10: 1574887734
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

Maine-born Dr. Sumner 'œJack' Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American Hospital in Paris, where he quickly became a favorite physician of such Lost Generation figures as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. During World War II, Jackson, his wife, and their teenage son joined the French Resistance. They hid and treated wounded Allied flyers and Resistance fighters, used the hospital as a cover for Resistance activities, photographed the German submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, and helped smuggle plans for the V-1 rocket to England. Just before the Americans liberated Paris, however, the family was betrayed to the Gestapo and deported to German concentration camps. The day before the war ended, tragedy struck. Doctor to the Resistance is based on recently declassified records of the French Resistance, the National Archives, family letters and diaries, and the author's interviews with Dr. Jackson's son. Hal Vaughan recounts the Jacksons' remarkable true story for the first time. It will captivate history buffs, World War II aficionados, and anyone interested in the Paris of that fascinating era.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue	xiii
1 At the Western Front on the Somme: June 1916	1	(13)
2 Coming Home-Going Home	14	(17)
3 The Debacle: Paris 1940	31	(21)
4 Internment	52	(12)
5 Resistance	64	(13)
6 Flying Fortresses-Secret Agents	77	(31)
7 Betrayal, Arrest, Deportation	108	(18)
8 Ravensbrück-Neuengamme	126	(19)
9 SS Death Ships	145	(13)
10 Sacrifice	158	(5)
Epilogue: Heroes and Villains	163	(6)
Appendix: Letter from SS General Oberg to His Chief, SS Reichsführer Himmler, Paris, August 8, 1944	169	(4)
Notes	173	(26)
Bibliography	199	(2)
Index	201	(4)
About the Author	205