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Wounded traces the quest created by a casualty from the battlefield to a clinic in Britain. It really is a story informed through the testimony of these who cared for him - stretcher bearers and medical officers, doctors and chaplains, orderlies and nurses - from the aid post in the trenches to the casualty clearing station and the ambulance train back again to Blighty. We feel the calloused hands of the stretcher-bearers; we see the bloody dressings and bandages; we smell the nauseating gangrene and, at London's channels, the gas clinging to the outfits of the men arriving home. There are the unspeakable injuries: the officer with a hole in his torso so big the doctor can easily see the sky beyond him; a guy with no thighs possessing a hymnbook for a guy with no biceps and triceps. Together, the activities in Wounded encapsulate what it was to fight, live, and perish for four long years at the Western Front side. The first comprehensive account of health care at the Western Front, Wounded is an homage to the courageous and motivated men and women who saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
