Dr Prit Buttar
Author & Military Historian
Prit Buttar studied medicine at St John’s College Oxford and King’s College Hospital London before joining the army as a doctor, working first as a surgeon and then as a GP. In 2000, he moved to Abingdon, Oxfordshire where he met an elderly German patient whose story of her escape from East Prussia in 1945 led to his first book, Battleground Prussia. This was followed by Between Giants, an account of the war in the Baltic States, and then by a four-volume account of the First World War. Since then, further books on the Second World War in the southern sector of the Eastern Front, the Rzhev Salient, the Lithuanian Holocaust, and a two-volume account of the Siege of Leningrad have followed. Further books about Operation Bagration, the Soviet advance from the Vistula to the Oder, Berlin 1945, and Warsaw 1939-1945 are in varying stages of preparation.
Prit moved to Scotland in 2016 and retired from medicine in 2019. He volunteered to return to work during Covid and is now safely retired once more. He is a keen wildlife and astro-photographer and lives with his wife Debbie, two border collies (Hamish and Dougal), two horses (Bella and Cosmo), and three Shetland ponies (Conan, Rambo and Rocky).
