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Title: |
With Them Through Hell |
| Sub-title: |
New Zealand medical services in the First Word War |
| Series: |
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand medical services in the First Word War |
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| By (author): |
Anna Rogers |
| ISBN10-13: |
0995100195 : 9780995100190 |
| Illustrations: |
150 colour illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
250x190mm |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Weight: |
1.530 Kg. |
| Published: |
Massey University Press - December 2018 |
| List Price: |
50.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 13 |
| Subjects: |
Biography: science, technology & medicine : First World War : New Zealand |
| The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with scalpels, bandages and drugs. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, orderlies and ambulance drivers, dentists, chiropodists, pharmacists, physiotherapists and chaplains cared for the sick and wounded, often at great personal risk. Veterinarians did the same for horses, camels and other animals. The challenges were enormous â horrific injuries, gas and deadly diseases, especially the influenza of 1918. There were some astonishing successes â most famously by plastic surgery pioneers Harold Gillies and Henry Pickerill â but the price was high, for patients and carers. The skilled, compassionate and courageous New Zealand medical personnel of the Great War have not always received the attention they deserve. Anna Rogers tells their remarkable story. |
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‘This is a a book will grace any bookshelf or coffee table but don’t expect anyone who casually picks it up to merely flick through and then put it down. This book draws you in and doesn’t let you leave unchanged. . . . With Them Through Hell is a gripping, well-researched and fluidly written history. It’s a milestone volume.’ — Sue Wootton, Corpus
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