'I studied surgery as a Japanese PoW' - BBC Health News 29th March 2008

Ninety-four-year-old Nowell Peach has a very special memento of his war years - a copy of Gray's Anatomy which was at his fingertips throughout the three years he spent as a Japanese prisoner of war. A budding surgeon, the doctor was allowed to keep a copy of the book throughout his incarceration - and he spent all the time that gave him to study it from cover to cover.

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