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The Parachute Ward
Nonfiction e-Book-of-the-Month, Jan 2000. THIS IS THE STORY OF AN AUTHENTIC HERO, a man whose courage saved the lives of countless soldiers and civilians in the mountains of war-torn Yugoslavia in 1944. In May of that year, Major Colin Scott Dafoe, a Canadian surgeon on special assignment with Britain's Special Operations Executive, parachuted behind enemy lines into German-occupied Yugoslavia. His mission: to provide medical aid to the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, the ragtag band of unsung heroes who were Marshal Tito's Partisans. In a makeshift hospital constructed from parachutes, Dafoe operated on the wounded, brought from miles around to receive his attention. And when the Partisans moved through the rugged mountains and dense forests of Yugoslavia, Dafoe and his portable "parachute ward" followed, always operating in the field of combat. The Ottawa Citizen noted: "Street writes with humor, warmth and understanding... In a masterly fashion, The Parachute Ward...offers insights into the idealism that can spring from brutality and injustice." Using Dafoe's own record of his mission in the Balkans, and the words and reminiscences of his friends, family and colleagues, this book recounts the saga of a truly remarkable man.
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