This book provides an overview of the history of allied medicine in the Great War. Based on both primary research and secondary literature, it offers a clear an

The true story of Allied nursing in the First World War, offering a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and it

The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In conseq

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Gr

This work explores the different ways civilians work and function in a war situation, and broadens our understanding of the civilian to encompass munitions work