Rich Keeble
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The word 'surgeon' derives from the Greek for 'hand work', and since the dawn of time the surgeon has been charged with the task of patching people up when they need it. Arnold Van de Laar, himself a surgeon in Amsterdam, uses medical case histories to examine the past, present and future of surgery. The patients that feature in his include Empress Sissi (stabbed), Louis XIV (fistula in the anus), Pope John Paul II (colostomy), John F. Kennedy and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
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Inspired by a little-known piece of history—the underground group that kept an archive to ensure that the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II were not lost to history—this is a heart-wrenching novel of love and defiance that People calls "gripping, emotional, and against all odds, hopeful."
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Inspired by a little-known piece of history—the underground group that kept an archive to ensure that the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II were not lost to history—this is a heart-wrenching novel of love and defiance that People calls "gripping, emotional, and against all odds, hopeful."
“This book is a masterpiece:...