Prit Buttar

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Prit Buttar is a British doctor and writer. He has written twelve history books about the eastern fronts of World War I and World War II, plus two novels. He was a senior partner at Abingdon Surgery until he moved to Scotland in late 2017. He studied medicine at Oxford University and London University and served five years in the British Army as a surgeon and medical officer. He later worked as a general practitioner in Bristol and then in Abingdon-on-Thames from 2000 to 2017. He has also served on the GP’s Committee of the British Medical Association and is the chairman of the Oxfordshire Local Medical Committee.

Buttar’s first book, Battleground Prussia, came from a patient who told him stories about life as a nurse in East Prussia and escaping the Red Army near the end of World War II; he spent eight years researching it. His second book, Between Giants, looks at the Baltic battles in WWII and the experiences of people from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. His third book, Collision of Empires, examines the Eastern Front of World War I and is the first in a four-volume series. Before writing it, Buttar spent a year studying archives in Berlin, Vienna, and Freiberg, and translated German records with help from another historian.

The second book in the series, Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915, was released in 2015. In 2023, Buttar appeared on the history podcast Out of the Box with Jonathan Russo. He is of Indian descent and is married to Debbie, an army nurse; they have two children, Dan and Lottie.