Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War
by Mark Harrison
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This represents the first major history of British medicine during the Second World War. It shows how medicine gave the British a crucial edge in several theatres, by preventing losses from disease and returning the sick and wounded to active service. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital. - ;Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British show more military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s show lessTags
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"This first-rate study helps indicate how the British army was able to wage war effectively around the world." Jeremy Black, The Social Affairs Unit "Harrison has set out to remedy the neglect of medical aspects of the war and has more than succeeded in his intention. This book is essential reading for historians of the Second World War." Ian F.W. show more Beckett, Social History of Medicine "Mark Harrison's Medicine and Victory is a landmark text." Christopher Lawrence, History of Medicine show less
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- Original publication date
- 2004
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945)
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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