{"product_id":"2026100012602-secondhand-the-albert-coates-story","title":"The Albert Coates Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948309450971,"sku":"2026100012602-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5d5daa34-40cc-4e75-9799-5405fdca06fa.png?v=1793104433","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012602-secondhand-the-albert-coates-story","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}