The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The injuries on the battlefield were unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. Yet, they adapted incredibly fast – saving millions of lives. From Battlefield to . Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged/5(). Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, Emily Mayhew. Bodley Head, - HISTORY - pages. 1 Review 'Wounded' traces a journey made by a casualty from the battlefield of the Western Front to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimony of those who cared for him - stretcher bearers and medical officers, surgeons 5/5(1).
Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, by Emily Mayhew starting at $ Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, has 2 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. Emily Mayhew is the author of Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, She is Research Associate at Imperial College and consultant and lecturer to various museums including the Wellcome Collection, the Imperial War Museum and the Royal College of Surgeons. Her first book, The Reconstruction of Warriors, was published in Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimony of those who cared for him - stretcher bearers and medical officers, surgeons and chaplains, orderlies and nurses - from the aid post in the trenches to the casualty clearing station and the ambulance train back to Blighty.
Mayhew, an examiner at the Imperial College London School of Medicine who was unsatisfied with largely fictional portrayals of wounded soldiers and their caregivers, set out to construct a more fact-based historical analysis. Wounded: from Battlefield to Blighty - Emily Mayhew There will be hundreds of books published over the next few years to coincide with the centenary of WWI but I doubt there will be many more moving than Wounded by Emily Mayhew. In this marvellous, thought provoking and deeply sad book Emily Mayhew shows the horrors of the battlefield, and what those horrors meant to the men wounded.
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