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Author Harrison, Mark, 1964-

Title Medicine and victory : British military medicine in the Second World War / Mark Harrison
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; 1. A Medical Service for a Modern Army?; 2. Medicine in Retreat 1940-1942; 3. The Western Desert, 1940-1943; 4. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy; 5. Burma and North-East India; 6. Medicine Victorious: North-West Europe, 1944-1945; 7. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-307) and index
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- Great Britain
Medicine, Military -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
War -- Medical aspects.
History, 20th Century
Military Medicine -- history
Public Health Practice -- history
Warfare
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Medical care
Medicine, Military
War -- Medical aspects
Militaire geneeskunde.
Krijgsmacht.
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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