The Albert Coates Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in Australian medical history command as much reverence as Albert Coates — surgeon, soldier, and survivor — whose extraordinary life is chronicled in this compelling biography co-written with journalist Newman Rosenthal. Born in country Victoria in 1895, Coates rose to become one of Australia's most celebrated military surgeons, serving with distinction in both World War I and World War II, where he was captured by the Japanese and endured the brutal conditions of the Burma-Thailand Railway as a prisoner of war. Working with next to nothing, he performed hundreds of life-saving operations on fellow prisoners, his courage and ingenuity becoming the stuff of legend among the men whose lives he saved. The Albert Coates Story stands as a testament to human resilience and the extraordinary capacity for compassion under the most harrowing circumstances imaginable. The narrative balances the clinical precision of a surgeon's memoir with the raw emotional weight of a POW's testimony, offering a portrait of a man who refused to surrender his humanity even as the world around him descended into savagery. Rosenthal's skilled hand gives shape and momentum to a life that reads almost too remarkable to be true — leaving the reader to wonder not just at what Coates endured, but at how one man's quiet determination changed the fate of so many.
Author: Albert Coates And Newman Rosenthal
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in Australian medical history command as much reverence as Albert Coates — surgeon, soldier, and survivor — whose extraordinary life is chronicled in this compelling biography co-written with journalist Newman Rosenthal. Born in country Victoria in 1895, Coates rose to become one of Australia's most celebrated military surgeons, serving with distinction in both World War I and World War II, where he was captured by the Japanese and endured the brutal conditions of the Burma-Thailand Railway as a prisoner of war. Working with next to nothing, he performed hundreds of life-saving operations on fellow prisoners, his courage and ingenuity becoming the stuff of legend among the men whose lives he saved. The Albert Coates Story stands as a testament to human resilience and the extraordinary capacity for compassion under the most harrowing circumstances imaginable. The narrative balances the clinical precision of a surgeon's memoir with the raw emotional weight of a POW's testimony, offering a portrait of a man who refused to surrender his humanity even as the world around him descended into savagery. Rosenthal's skilled hand gives shape and momentum to a life that reads almost too remarkable to be true — leaving the reader to wonder not just at what Coates endured, but at how one man's quiet determination changed the fate of so many.