<p><b>A powerful and </b><b>intensely moving </b><b>memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances.</b><br><br><b>‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ – Adam Kay, author of <i>This Is Going to Hurt</i></b><br><br>For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital.<br><br> The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twenty-first-century combat: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia,
