Author: SLAUGHTER FRANK G.
Title: Sword and Scalpel
Description: Garden City , New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Book Club Edition, slightly cocked to the right, Tan hard boards with maroon lettering on spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Clean text, bottom corners bumped. DJ worn, small piece missing from top of spine chipping on bottom of spine. Scrape with small hole missing on front cover, soiled around flap edges. "Why would a Johns Hopkins alumnus, a surgeon with a brilliant record and a clear-cut future before him, prefer capture by the North Korean forces to a dash for liberty with his own outfit? Why did he begin to collaborate with those captors almost from the first moment? How, in short, could he commit this outrage against his conscience, his country, and his God?"; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 285 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: Korean War Treason Doctors Fiction Historical Fiction War


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