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Roderick Stewart

Author of The Mind of Norman Bethune

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Bethune is a nation hero in China and recently, his work in Spain during the Civil War is also being acknowledged. A man with a strong social conscience, he was attracted to Spain to assist with his medical skills. He came up with the idea of collecting blood and transporting it close to the front lines where the wounded could receive a transfusion and have a better chance of surviving. A Spanish doctor had already come up with the same idea and had it working. When Bethune discovered the Spanish doctor's method was superior to his, he adopted it in the mobile blood transfusion trucks he built.

Bethune witnessed the tragic slaughter of civilians as they fled from Malaga to Almeria which is now considered to have been a greater war crime than the more famous bombing of Guernica. The book contains photos of that flight as well as many photos of Bethune and the transfusion vehicles in use during the war.
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