A homage to the courage and determination of the men and women who cared for - and saved the lives of - the hundreds of thousands of British soldiers who were wounded at the Western Front.
Emily Mayhew is the author of Wounded- From Battlefield to Blighty,
1914-1918. She is Research Associate at Imperial College and
consultant and lecturer to various museums including the Wellcome
Collection, the Imperial War Museum and the Royal College of
Surgeons. Her first book, The Reconstruction of Warriors, was
published in 2004.
Emily's primary research interest is the history of the medical
treatment of severe casualty in 20th and 21st century warfare. She
is determined to ensure that, in particular, the work and courage
of the stretcher bearers of the Great War is properly represented
during the centenary commemorations.
During Autumn of 2014 she will be speaking at the Royal
Institution, the Cheltenham Literary Festival, the Royal Society of
Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow,
the Liverpool History Society, the Florence Nightingale Museum, and
the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Great War
Centenary Commemoration.
An original and absorbing account... [Mayhew] has a marvellous eye
for quirky and horrifying detail... Absolutely compelling
*Times Literary Supplement*
Mayhew deftly describes such daily horrors as shattered jaws and
severed arteries, filthy uniforms and decay. What takes the book
beyond the standard accounts of the trenches, however, is its
depiction of how such terrible circumstances forced people to
respond in remarkable ways
*Guardian*
Wounded is a powerful and descriptive read, and through it I found
a greater understanding of what it was to be part of that war
*Church Times*
Among the many books commemorating the conflict, one stands out for
its specialisation. This is Wounded... Mayhew is to be commended
for giving us these testimonies
*Oxford Times*
A fascinating read
*Lady*
Both tragic and uplifting, for me it brought home the full horrors
of the war
*Cultural Voyager*
Fascinating
*Gun Mart*
Requires total immersion followed by quiet contemplation… Not only
a history of medicine. It is a history dedicated to men […] for
whom the war-afflicted body was a life sentence
*Lancet*
Powerful… Does justice to the experience of the wounded and the
dedication of the doctors, nurses, orderlies, stretcher bearers and
volunteers who cared for them, by weaving together the testimonies
of individuals into a moving history
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
Moving
*Daily Mail*
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