This book is a collection of stores about the work of deported doctors trying to survive, and help others survive, in concentration camps during World War II. "In very primitive conditions, these doctors managed to achieve what sometimes seemed like miracles and thus they became known as "Doctors of Mercy". I don't think any deportee would disagree that the "miracle doctors" snatched from the jaws of death more than half of those who survived. They had little other than their bare hands with which to achieve these results, they lacked medical equipment and supplies and found themselves in a subordinate position to the S.S. doctors, the kapos, or hospital orderlies, and sometimes even the hospital porters, but by sheer while, devotion to duty, professional competence, adherence to the sacred oaths of their calling, their courage and their mutual support, they achieved astonishing results." This is part of a set of ~15 books describing different aspects of life during World War II. "This edition is reserved for friends of history."