Publisher's Synopsis
"Dottore!" is more than an autobiographical account of one man's fate during the Second World War. It is an astonishingly human insight into the nature of the war in Italy and Italians.;Dr Salim Diamand arrived in Italy prior to 1939 to study medicine. A Jew from Poland, he bacame a victim of the war and spent over four years in various concentration.;"Dottore!" gives us rare insights into these unusual concentration camps, the inmates, the administration and the peculiarities of war-torn Italy. It is also a tribute to the Italians as a people, as individuals and to Italy as a special country.;Dr Salim Diamand emigrated to Canada from Italy in 1950 and he has practised medicine in British Columbia and then in Toronto, Ontario.
