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A Heavy Reckoning

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

A Heavy Reckoning

By Emily Mayhew

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About the book

What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death. Historian Emily Mayhew explores the reality of medicine and injury in wartime, from the trenches of World War One to the plains of Afghanistan and the rehabilitation wards ...Show more

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ISBN

9781781255865

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2018

Language

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1

Original title

A Heavy Reckoning

Format

Paperback

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