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Item Details
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WOUNDED
FROM BATTLEFIELD TO BLIGHTY, 1914-1918 |
| By: |
Emily Mayhew |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847922619 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847922618 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
12 September, 2013 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Traces the journey made by a casualty from battlefield to a hospital in Britain. This book tells a story 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 casualty clearing station and the ambulance train back to Blighty. |
| Synopsis: |
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. We feel the calloused hands of the stretcher-bearers; we see the bloody dressings and bandages; we smell the nauseating gangrene and, at London's stations, the gas clinging to the uniforms of the men arriving home. There are the unspeakable injuries: the officer with a hole in his torso so big the doctor can see the sky beyond him; a man with no legs holding a hymnbook for a man with no arms. Together, the experiences in Wounded encapsulate what it was to fight, live and die for four long years at the Western Front. The first comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front, Wounded is a homage to the courageous and determined men and women who saved hundreds of thousands of lives. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
The Bodley Head Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2014 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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