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Medicine and victory : British military medicine in the Second World War /
This represents the first major history of British medicine during the Second World War. It shows how medicine gave the British a crucial edge in several theatres, by preventing losses from disease and returning the sick and wounded to active service. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-offi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This represents the first major history of British medicine during the Second World War. It shows how medicine gave the British a crucial edge in several theatres, by preventing losses from disease and returning the sick and wounded to active service. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital. - ;Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-307) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429469531 1429469536 9780191514968 0191514969 1280841044 9781280841040 9780199268597 0199268592 9786610841042 6610841047 |