num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Half Acre of Hell: A Combat Nurse in WW II
titlecomplete: A Half Acre of Hell: A Combat Nurse in WW II
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 85
publisher: Galde Press, Incorporated