The cellars of Marcelcave: a Yank doctor in the BEF

This volume is the memoir of one of the 1,500 doctors the officially neutral U.S. government sent to fill the depleted ranks of the British Army in 1917. He spent much time at the front, had a several close calls, and escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp.

  • OCLC #: 38485797
  • ISBN #:
    • 1572491108
    • 9781572491106
  • Call #: D629.G7G35 1998
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Main Shelves — D629 .G7 G35 1998
  • Personal Collection:
    • The James W. Wengert, M.D. Military Medical Collection.
  • Publisher: Shippensburg, PA : Burd Street Press, ©1998.
  • Physical Description: xix, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • General Notes:
    • The memoir of Bernard J. Gallagher, revised and edited by his grandson, Christopher J. Gallagher.
    • Excerpts have appeared in the June 1965 ed. of American heritage, under the title: A Yank in the BEF; excerpts appeared also in: 1914-1918 : voices & images of the Great War / Lyn Macdonald. 1988.
  • Contents:
    • Prologue: ashes to ashes
    • I want you
    • U-boat alley
    • Meeting a train
    • To the front
    • Over the top
    • Debate
    • Paris
    • Raids
    • Beware of MacDuff
    • Chaos and confusion
    • Feldlazarett
    • French cookies
    • Ten million men
    • Prisoner in the black forest
    • Escape
    • Home free
    • Epilogue.