Love, Is: Letters from a Jewish American Doctor in World War II. This item is unavailable.Love, Is: Letters from a Jewish American Doctor in World War II

In November 1943, Lt. Col. Isidore Feder left his wife and daughter in New York to help command a mobile hospital unit in Europe. As American troops fought to push back the Nazi line, he guided a team of young doctors and nurses in treating the wounds of war. Isidore chronicled the highs and lows of the wartime experience in nearly 1,500 pages of letters penned nightly to his family. Love, Is: Letters from a Jewish American Doctor in World War II blends excerpts from his near-uninterrupted account of two years in the European theater with brief commentary to place them in historical context. In rich and vivid detail, the book gives unparalleled insight into military life — from routine events such as meals, the weather and the Jewish holidays, to the intricate operations of a traveling medical division, and the horrific first-hand account of efforts to treat concentration camp survivors in the immediate aftermath of their liberation. Through Isidore’s lyrical voice, it also tells so much more about humanity, love, hope and reactions to an extraordinary era at home and abroad.