Books Published
Leprosy in Five Young Men
(Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1970)
8vo., hardbound with dust jacket, illustrated. 13 reviews, all of which were favourable. It was based on research done at the National Institutes of Health in 1961-63. The reviewer in the New England Journal of Medicine called it “a modern classic.”
This book was promoted as the first book published by the CAUP, and the press run of 1000 books was completely sold out. A copy was requested in 1997 by the National Institutes of Health, because their library copy had “gone missing.” Used copies are often available from bookstores on line. The book is held by 92 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Outpatient Surgery
(Philadelphia: Saunders, 1973)
This book was intended to be the successor to the popular textbook, Minor Surgery. Dr. Hill was invited to write a completely new version, with new illustrations, underwritten by the publisher. It is believed to have been one of the major causes of the disappearance of surgical wards in American hospitals, as doctors and patients began to prefer this method. It is also known as ambulatory or same-day surgery.
Outpatient Surgery won 2nd Prize in the Philadelphia Book Fair in 1973. It had a second printing, a paperback reprint, and second and third editions. It was a best-seller for fifteen years, until the time that Saunders was sold to CBS and no longer existed as a publisher. Saunders is now an imprint of Elsevier. Used copies are available. Ten reviews were published. Dr. Hill was called the “guru of ambulatory surgery” by a contemporary surgical author. Dr. Loyal Davis, a prominent leader of the American College of Surgeons, foresaw correctly that it would change surgical practice, the teaching of surgeons, and hospitals. It is found in 504 libraries world-wide that are monitored by WorldCat.
Clinical Oncology
(Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1977)
John Horton and George J. Hill, eds., xiii, 819 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. This book was the first to be published in the United States that considered cancer as a disease. It focused mainly on the usual presentation of the disease in different organs, rather than on treatment.
Clinical Oncology was soon followed by other similar books, such as Cancer Medicine and Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology. A second edition of Clinical Oncology was never published, because the editors at Saunders believed that other publishers had cornered the market on cancer. But it remained in print for more than ten years, longer than its competitors, and it is still valued highly as a used book. Horton and Hill each later became Presidents of the American Association for Cancer Education. Clinical Oncology can be found in 208 libraries that are monitored by WorldCat.
Second and third editions of Outpatient Surgery were published in 1980 and 1988, and used copies are often available on-line from Amazon or other sources. The second edition grew to xviii, 1954 pages, and the third edition was deliberately reduced in size to xxi, 729 pages. A translation of the third edition was published in 1990 by McGraw-Hill, xxiii, 770 pages. In 2019, it was still in print, with royalties being paid for use of the illustrations. Copies of Outpatient Surgery can be found in 504 libraries world-wide, according to WorldCat.
Edison’s Environment: Invention and Pollution in the Career of Thomas Edison
(Morristown, N.J.: New Jersey Heritage Press, 2007)
2 volumes (xiv, 480 leaves); 29 cm, hardbound with dust jacket, illustrated, xiv, 473 pages.; Independent Books, 2010. First edition. Two more editions have been published.
This book was based on Hill’s thesis for the M.A. in history at Rutgers-Newark. It was published as Edison’s Environment, 1869-1931: The Great Inventor’s Residences and Worksites in New Jersey, and His Environmental Impact During His New Jersey Years. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Intimate Relationships: Church and State in the U.S. and Liberia
(Race, Religion, Rubber, and Politics in the Liberia Education Project, 1917-1947)
VDM-Verlag, May 26, 2008), 8vo., paper covers, 621 pages. First edition.
Two more editions have been published.
John Saxe, Loyalist (1732-1808) and His Descendants for Five Generations
(Westminster, Md.: Heritage Books, August 2010)
4to, hardbound or paper covers. 186pp., illustrated. Available from www. HeritageBooks.com
Proceed to Peshawar: The Story of a U.S. Navy Intelligence Mission on the Afghan Border, 1943
(Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013)
8vo., paper covers. 228 pp, illustrated.
Finalist’s Medal, Military category, Indie Book Awards, 2014.
The story told in Proceed to Peshawar has been the subject of three movie scripts, 11 reviews, and two more books. It was the topic of an 8 Bells Lecture on YouTube to the Naval War College on March 18, 2014, at: https://youtu.be/gA2S4YRArYU. The lecture has had 703 views, as of November 2021. Proceed to Peshawar is in the holdings of 657 libraries that are indexed by WorldCat.
Two movie scripts based on Proceed to Peshawar were written for semi-fictional or biopic films, and one was for a documentary film. It is in the Independent Movie Data Base Pro (IMDbPro) listing for George J. Hill, for the film Khyber Pass.
HILL: The Ferry Keeper’s Family. Luke Hill and Mary Hout, Who Were Married in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1651
(Westminster, Md.: Heritage Books, 2011)
8vo., paper covers, illustrated. It can be found in 13 libraries that are monitored by WorldCat.
Khyber Pass awaits a producer to screen it with a tagline of FORGOTTEN SUPERSPY.
From Heritage Books, Berwyn Heights, Maryland
Three Men in a Jeep Called “Ma Kabul” is designed for a video camera or a cellphone.
Three Men in a Jeep Called “Ma Kabul,” Script for a Movie: A True Story of High Adventure by Three Allied Intelligence Officers in World War II (2018).
George J. Hill, “Dearest Barb” from Karachi, 1943-1945: Letters and Photographs in the World War II Papers of a Naval Intelligence Officer, Lieutenant Albert Zimmermann (2018).
Five Genealogies from Heritage Books
Western Pilgrims
The Hill, Stockwell and Allied Families. Ancestors and Descendants of George J. Hill and Jessie Fidelia Stockwell, Who Were Married in Wright County, Iowa, in 1882 (2014). 2 volumes.
Quakers and Puritans
The Shoemaker, Warren and Allied Families. Ancestors and Descendants of William Toy Shoemaker and Mabel Warren, Who Were Married in Philadelphia in 1895 (2015); 2 volumes.
Fundy to Chesapeake
The Thompson, Rundall and Allied Families. Ancestors and Descendants of William Henry Thompson and Sarah D. Rundall, Who Were Married in Linn County, Iowa, in 1889 (2016); 2 volumes.
American Dreams
Ancestors and Descendants of John Zimmermann and Eva Katherine Kellenbenz, Who Were Married in Philadelphia in 1885 (2016).
Four Families
A Tetralogy. Reader’s Guide to Western Pilgrims, Quakers and Puritans, Fundy to Chesapeake, and American Dreams (2017).
Three Books of Letters from the World Wars,
from Heritage Books
Rolling with Patton
The Letters and Photographs of Field Director Gerald L. Hill, 303rd Infantry Regiment, 97th “Trident” Division, 1943–1945 (2020). xii, 214 pages.
The Home Front in World War II
From the Letters of Essie Mae Hill to Field Director Gerald L. Hill (2020). xii, 197 pages.
War Letters, 1917–1918
From Dr. William T. Shoemaker, A.E.F., in France, and His Family in Philadelphia (2021). xiii, 254 pages.
Two Edited Books of Poetry, Stories, and Essays
from Heritage Books
Prairie Daughter
Stories and Poems from Iowa, George J. Hill, ed. Essie Mae Thompson Hill, 2d ed. (2019). xvi. 231 pages.
A Lesson in Reality (2022)
George J. Hill, ed. David Hedgcock Hill, xiv, 82 pages. In press. A reviewer called it “A beautiful book.”
The Latest, from Heritage Books
Health Matters
(A New View of Human History (2021), xvi, 320 pages)
Health Matters proposes an audacious new concept of human history. The author argues that the primary goal of humans, from cave dwellers to those in the modern world, has been the search for good health and a long life. The quest for health has been to avoid illness, to treat disease and injuries, and to delay death.
A reviewer wrote: Health Matters fits the rubric of “Big History.” Big History does not specialize; rather, it is multidisciplinary and draws on the sciences, natural history, and the humanities to look at long-term—actually very long term—trends, trying to find common or unifying patterns in human history. Your MS would seem to fit in nicely.