Guerilla Surgeon - A New Zealand Surgeon's Wartime Experiences with the Yugoslav Partisans

Fontana Silver Ferns (Collins), 1974 reprint

War brings strange fates to many men but to none more than Lindsay Rogers, a New Zealand surgeon who had been serving with the Eighth Army in the desert. He volunteered for special service in S.O.E. and then found himself set down one dark night on the Isle of Vis, off the Dalmation coast. His job was to work as a surgeon among Yugoslav partisans; to fight with them, to tend the wounded and act as an unofficial liaison officer between them and the Allied troops. For many months to come, in caves and deep in forests, up mountains, he bought all his skill as a surgeon, his staunchness and bravery as a serving soldier to his strange job. Among many first hand stories of the last war Guerilla Surgeon will stand out for its compassion and understanding of an alien people fighting for their freedom; for the integrity of a man who refused to compromise and whose name became a legend among those whom he served; and for the quiet modesty with which his story is told...

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