A2: Book Review

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The Freep’s Javan Kienzle reviews “World War II Front Line Nurse” by Mildred MacGregor, a 95-year-old Ann Arbor resident. Kienzl writes that MacGregor describes her “memories of being on a ship zigzagging through U-Boat Alley, huddling through air raids in England, living through 120-degree heat in North Africa and following the First Army across Europe. …There is little time for literary niceties when one is trying to write a few words after endless hours cleaning wounds, assisting at operations, changing bloodied dressings and giving injections. The University of Michigan Press, in publishing this memoir as is has done the reader a service; war is not for grammarians.” [Source]