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"The Cellars of Marcelcave: A Yank Doctor in the BEF"
first-person account of Ben Gallagher’s nineteen months at war in France and Germany. The book follows Gallagher from his third year of medical school in 1915 through his surgical internship and enlistment. In 1917 he thought he was enlisting in the US Army but it was really the British Army. The book details his deployment to France and the Front and surviving a gas attack, his division’s retreat from Amiens in March of 1918 after a major German offensive, and his capture by the Germans in the village of Marcelcave, where he was the only doctor left to care for the wounded who could not be evacuated. He is later sent to a prisoner of war camp in the Black Forest, eventually escapes, survives the “Spanish” flu, and returns home in February of 1919.
Before America went to war in 1917 to make the world safe for democracy, Uncle Sam sent more than 1,500 doctors to fill the depleted ranks of the British Army. Among these volunteers was Ben Gallagher, twenty-eight, fresh from his internship. With a clinician's eye and a historian's sense he saw the war to end all wars from a front line aid post. He survived several hairbreadth escapes as well as a successful escape from a prisoner of war camp. But only Ben's shoes make it to freedom Ben's encounters with wounded British, the famous Baron von Richtofen, and a German intelligence officer bring the conflict to life.