Wounded soldiers leaving the Hospitals
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynn McDonald
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 1098
ISBN-13: 1554587476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.
Author: Christos Giannou
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.
Author: Ann Jones
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1608463710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reporter’s firsthand, close-up-and-personal look at the impact of our recent wars on America’s unlucky soldiers.
Author: Sophronia E. Bucklin
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-25
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780331939583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from In Hospital and Camp: A Woman's Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War Many women, possessed Of independent means, were enabled, under the patronage of the Com missions, and under pretence of aiding the work in the hospitals, to behold the grandeur Of the Capitol, and gratify a taste for romantic adven ture. But how many of these Slept for nights under the white cover Of a tent, on the bare ground, and suffered the pangs Of starvation for days, while they bent over the festering wounds Of dying men? How many endured the horrible Sights Of mangled bodies, just brought in by the ambulance trains from the gory sods, whereon they fell when the foe met them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Zachary Friedenberg
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2004-11-09
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1585443794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring World War II, the army established 107 evacuation hospitals to care for the wounded and sick in theaters around the world. An evacuation hospital was a forward hospital accepting patients from the battlefield. It was where the wounded first received definitive care. Formed at Camp Breckenridge, the 95th Evac arrived in Casablanca in April 1943, with seven thousand troops, thirty doctors, and forty nurses. First pitching their tents at Oujda, they moved eastward toward Algeria before making a D-day landing on the beaches of Salerno, Italy, on September 9, 1939. Shortly thereafter, they entered Naples, then set up shop at Anzio before moving on to become the first American hospital to penetrate Nazi-occupied Europe. After the guns were silent, records show that these doctors and nurses had treated over 42,000 Americans in almost all the critical battles of the European theater: Salerno, Monetcassino, Anzio, southern France, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland, and finally, the invasion into Germany. Hospital at War is the story of the 95th Evac Hospital as told by Zachary Friedenberg, a young surgeon at the time, fresh out of his internship. He tells the story of how the men and women of the 95th survived the war. He describes how they solved problems and learned to treat the war-wounded in the extreme heat of North Africa and during the frigid winters of the Rhineland. He tells how they endured shelling and a bombing of the hospital and how they adjusted to the people and the countries in which they worked. By the end of their two-year tour of duty, the men and women of the 95th Evac were superbly efficient. A casualty who made it to their facilities had a 99 percent chance of surviving. For anyone who wants to know how so many of our boys made it home despite horrific injuries, this book provides part of the answer.
Author: Ann Jones
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2007-03-06
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1466827653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and investigating the city's prison for women, Jones enters a large community of female outcasts: runaway child brides, pariah prostitutes, cast-off wives, victims of rape. In the streets and markets, she hears the Afghan view of the supposed benefits brought by the fall of the Taliban, and learns that regarding women as less than human is the norm, not the aberration of one conspicuously repressive regime. Jones confronts the ways in which Afghan education, culture, and politics have repeatedly been hijacked—by Communists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Western free marketeers—always with disastrous results. And she reveals, through small events, the big disjunctions: between U.S promises and performance, between the new "democracy" and the still-entrenched warlords, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own.
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1557091323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.
Author: Walter Lowenfels
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1989-03-22
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780306803550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1863 Walt Whitman first proposed to the publisher John Redpath a book about his Civil War experiences. It was never published. But in a draft prospectus Whitman described ”a new book . . . with its framework jotted down on the battlefield, in the shelter tent, by the wayside amid the rubble of passing artillery trains or the moving cavalry in the streets of Washington . . . a book full of the blood and vitality of the American people.” Walter Lowenfels has edited the book Whitman could only envision. From a mosaic of materials—newspaper dispatches, letters, notebooks, published and unpublished works—as well as thirty-six of Whitman's great war poems, Lowenfels has created a thrilling and unique document. Sixteen pages of drawings by Winslow Homer, another distinguished eyewitness, are reproduced here from the artist's field sketches. The result is a book that produces in the reader exactly what Whitman had hoped, one that captures ”part of the actual distraction, heat, smoke, and excitement of those times.”