Near death

This book is a genuine diary of the outstanding Soviet surgeon Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky, written in the conditions of frontline life during the Great Patriotic War. It is not a literary novel, but an honest, restrained and at the same time piercing document recording the real work of a military doctor, day after day facing wounds, pain, death and hope. The pages of the diary show the daily life of the surgical service under fire: descriptions of the most severe wounds, the most co...