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 Western Desert.

He volunteered for special service in the SOE and found himself set down on one dark night on the Isle of Vis, off the Dalmatian coast.

His job was to work as a surgeon among Yugoslav partisans: to fight with them, to tend the wounded and to act as an unofficial liaison officer between them and the Allied troops.

For many months, in caves and deep in forests and up mountains, he brought all his skills as a surgeon, his staunchness and his bravery as a serving soldier to this strange job.

He was soon attached to the British Mission under Fitzroy Maclean of the SAS and was interviewed by Marshal Tito, who held him in the highest regard.

In Guerilla Surgeon he tells his story - and it is an inspiring and intensely exciting one of incredibly brave men and women fighting to end the Nazi occupation.

It is the story of a man whose job it was to save life, not destroy it. And in this role Rogers performed under the most fantastic conditions, in makeshift shelters, with little or no equipment, sometimes with untrained assistants, and with the barriers of language and a different ideology between him and those with whom he worked.

Guerilla Surgeon by Lindsay Rogers was published in 1974 by Fontana Silver Fern, Auckland. It is a 254-page 13x19cm paperback in good condition for its age, with just a spine tear at the top of the back page and the odd crease.

It is subtitled A New Zealand Surgeon's Wartime Experiences with the Yugoslav Partisans.

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