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If you are unable to watch the live-streamed Literary events, the recording of each Literary event will be available to view online from the following day, using a viewing token, until midnight 7 November.Please note, this may only be done while the event is live. Viewers will still be able to watch the event while submitting questions, which will be relayed in real time to the speaker/interviewer. During the live literary events, questions may be submitted by typing them into the Q&A box on the Petworth Festival website.Literary events are live streamed (with the exception of James Naughtie and Joanna Trollope) and will include Q&A from the online audience.David Nott will take live questions from our online audience.War Doctor is an extraordinary story.ĭavid Nott will be in conversation with Stewart Collins.
Since 2015, the foundation he set up with his wife, Elly, has disseminated the knowledge he has gained, training other doctors in the art of saving lives threatened by bombs and bullets.
He has also volunteered in areas blighted by natural disasters.ĭriven both by compassion and passion, the desire to help others, and the thrill of extreme personal danger, he is now widely acknowledged to be the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. The conflicts he has worked in form a chronology of twenty-first-century combat: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur, Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Gaza and Syria. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions. He needs a knighthood and his book needs to be in every house.’Īdam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurtįor more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones.
‘David Nott is brave, compassionate and inspiring - War Doctor is all of those things and more: a wonderful book that has left me in floods of tears.
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