An Introduction by John Ralston Saul -- Chapter 1: A Man Who Is of Value to the People -- Chapter 2: Reach Out and Take the Hand of the Toiler -- Chapter 3: Fear Is the Great Destroyer of Happiness -- Chapter 4: The Stormy Petrel -- Chapter 5: A Tiger of Sweetness, of Fierceness and Delight -- Chapter 6: Those Who in Their Lives Fought for Life -- Chapter 7: Every Leader Starts by First Leading Himself -- Epilogue: Seventy Years Later

"The stormy and inspirational life of a Canadian doctor who is a hero in China. Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious energy included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese Canadian, has always been fascinated by the dynamic man who married his social conscience to his medical mission. Reviled as a Communist by some, revered as a humanitarian by others, Bethune was a complicated, inspirational figure who lived and loved on a large canvas" (Publisher's website)