Lt. Avis Schorer served with an evacuation hospital in North Africa and Italy. Heartache, loneliness, and danger were constant companions while caring for the severely wounded. She and 25 others were the first to land on the Anzio beachhead. Constantly bombarded by German shells and bombs, the hospital on the beach was soon dubbed Hell s Half Acre.
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Avis D. Schorer is a retired nurse who has lived in Bloomington, Minnesota, for the past 32 years. A native of Iowa, she took her nurse's training at Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. She served four years in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II including stints in both North Africa and Italy. After serving in the army from March 1942 until January 1946, she attended Anesthesia School at Northwestern Hospital (then Wesley Memorial) in Chicago. She now does volunteer work at Fairview Ridges Hospital and her local library. She is also a member of the Augsburg Park Library Writers' Group.
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This review is from: A Half Acre of Hell: A Combat Nurse in WW II (Paperback)
This book was a definite eye-opener. I read it at age 17, and was aghast at the horrors of Anzio and inspired by the nurses who served there. This book gave me a glimpse of the true nature of nursing, and largely because of this book, I entered nursing school a year later. I'm now a Registered Nurse, and this book has an honored spot on my bookshelves. A definite must-read.
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This review is from: A Half Acre of Hell: A Combat Nurse in WW II (Paperback)
This is the moving, very personal story of a young nurse from Iowa who found herself in the some of the worst fighting of all of World War II. I found the book fascinating and very easy to read. The story has never been told before, and since the author is the last of the 26 nurses who landed at Anzio, it will surely never be told again.
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The book presents a realistic description of the extreme hardships endured by Army Nurses in Italy during WWII.
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