Wounded A New History of the Western Front in World War I

Name: Wounded A New History of the Western Front in World War I
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ISBN: 9780199322459

ISBN-10: 0199322457

ISBN-13: 9780199322459

Edition: 2014

Authors: Emily Mayhew

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The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took bits of dirty uniform and airborne soil particles in with them. Soldier after soldier came in with the most dreaded kinds of casualty: awful, deep, ragged wounds to their heads, faces and abdomens. And yet the medical personnel faced with these unimaginable injuries adapted with amazing aptitude, thinking and reacting on their feet to save millions of lives.In Wounded, Emily Mayhew tells the…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 9.53" wide x 6.47" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction


Author's Note



Wounded


Mickey Chater, Neuve Chapelle, 12 March 1915



Bearers


Earnest Douglas, William Young, William Easton



Regimental Medical Officers


John Linnell, William Kelsey Fry, Alfred Hardwick, Charles McKerrow



Surgeons


Henry Souttar, Norman Pritchard, John Hayward



Wounded


Bert Payne, Montauban, 1 July 1916



Nurses


Jentie Patterson, Winifred Kenyon, Elizabeth Boon



Orderlies


Alfred Arnold, Harold Foakes



Wounded


John Glubb, Menin Road, 21 August 1917



Chaplains


Wilfred Abbott, Ernest Crosse, Charles Doudney, John Murray, Cyril Horsley-Smith, Montagu Bere, John Lane Fox



Ambulance Trains


Nurse Bickmore, Nurse Morgan, Margaret Brander, Leonard Horner



Fumes Railway Station


Sarah MacNaughtan



Wounded


Joseph Pickard, Moreuil, Easter Sunday 1918



The London Ambulance Column Claire Tisdall


Epilogue


Acknowledgements


Notes and References


Timeline


Illustrations


Index