Peter FitzSimons’ next book is on Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop. 

 Weary Dunlop was an exceptional person – his humility and compassion as an Australian POW and Surgeon on the Thai-Burma railway saved so many lives. Some of the stories Peter recounts are harrowing, but they also capture Weary’s humanity – like when he stood between a Japanese soldier’s bayonet and his blind, paraplegic patient; or when he took out a fellow POW’s ”perforated duodenal ulcer” in the deep jungle of Thailand, with ‘the fitful light of weak hurricane lamps . . . a beam of a torch . . . a needle made from hardened copper wire and catgut thread made from the intestines of animals . . .”

Peter FitzSimons&rsquo; next book is on Sir Edward &lsquo;Weary&rsquo; Dunlop.&nbsp;
&nbsp;Weary Dunlop was an exceptional person &ndash; his humility and compassion as an Australian POW and Surgeon on the Thai-Burma railway saved so many lives. Some of the stories Peter recounts are harrowing, but they also capture Weary&rsquo;s humanity &ndash; like when he stood between a Japanese soldier&rsquo;s bayonet and his blind, paraplegic patient; or when he took out a fellow POW&rsquo;s &rdquo;perforated duodenal ulcer&rdquo; in the deep jungle of Thailand, with &lsquo;the fitful light of weak hurricane lamps . . . a beam of a torch . . . a needle made from hardened copper wire and catgut thread made from the intestines of animals . . .&rdquo;

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