The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself,
devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10
million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking,
unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The
bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took bits of dirty uniform
and airborne soil particles in with them. Soldier after soldier
came in with the most dreaded kinds of casualty: awful, deep,
ragged wounds to their heads, faces and abdomens. And yet the
medical personnel faced with these unimaginable injuries adapted
with amazing aptitude, thinking and reacting on their feet to save
millions of lives. In Wounded, Emily Mayhew tells the history of
the Western Front from a new perspective: the medical network that
arose seemingly overnight to help sick and injured soldiers. These
men and women pulled injured troops from the hellscape of trench,
shell crater, and no man's land, transported them to the rear, and
treated them for everything from foot rot to poison gas, venereal
disease to traumatic amputation from exploding shells. Drawing on
hundreds of letters and diary entries, Mayhew allows readers to
peer over the shoulder of the stretcher bearer who jumped into a
trench and tried unsuccessfully to get a tightly packed line of
soldiers out of the way, only to find that they were all dead. She
takes us into dugouts where rescue teams awoke to dirt thrown on
their faces by scores of terrified moles, digging frantically to
escape the earth-shaking shellfire. Mayhew moves her account along
the route followed by wounded men, from stretcher to aid station,
from jolting ambulance to crowded operating tent, from railway
station to the ship home, exploring actual cases of casualties who
recorded their experiences. Both comprehensive and intimate, this
groundbreaking book captures an often neglected aspect of the
soldier's world and a transformative moment in military and medical
history.
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