Before my helpless sight - Leo van Bergen
suffering, dying and military medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918
KORTE INHOUD
Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination. The unprecedented scale and mechanization of the war changed forever the way suffering and dying were perceived and challenged notions of what the nations could reasonably expect of their military. Examining experiences of the Western Front, this book looks at the life of a soldier from the moment he marched into battle until he was buried. In five chapters - Battle, Body, Mind, Aid, Death - it describes and analyzes the physical and mental hardship of the men who fought on a front that stretched from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border.
Beginning with a broad description of the war it then analyzes the medical aid the Tommies, Bonhommes and Frontschweine received - or all too often did not receive - revealing how this aid was often given for military and political rather than humanitarian reasons (getting the men back to the f...
Beginning with a broad description of the war it then analyzes the medical aid the Tommies, Bonhommes and Frontschweine received - or all too often did not receive - revealing how this aid was often given for military and political rather than humanitarian reasons (getting the men back to the f...
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Ashgate: Farnham, 2009. Series The History of Medicine in Context. Bound with dustwrappers, 528 pp., 20 black-and-white photos, bibliography, index, 16x24x4 cm, in very good condition. [Parcel service] [Categorie: Medical Science] [Auteur: Bergen, Leo van.] [Pagina's: 528] [Jaar: 2009] [Titel: Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, dying and military medicine on the Western front, 1914-1918.]
