Download Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars Through World War I AudioBook Free
In such a first record of the armed forces ambulance, historian John S. Haller, Jr. documents the introduction of medical systems for dealing with and carrying wounded military on the battlefield. Noting that the term ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a setting of transportation, Haller takes viewers back again to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late 18th century through World Battle I. The growing nationalism, financial and imperial competition, and armed forces alliances and hands races of the 19th and early on 20th centuries determine prominently in this record of the armed forces ambulance, which centers mainly on British isles and American technological advancements. You start with changes unveiled by Dominique-Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars, the book traces the organizational and technological challenges confronted by opposing armies in the Crimean Battle, the American Civil Battle, the Franco-Prussian Battle, and the Philippines Insurrection, then climaxes with the trench warfare that identified World Battle I. The operative term is "challenges" of health care and evacuation because although some things learned in a discord are carried into the next, too often, the spasms of conflict force its participants to replicate the mistakes of the past before acquiring essential insight. More than a record of medical evacuation systems and vehicles, this exhaustively investigated and richly illustrated level tells a remarkable story, offering listeners a distinctive point of view of the changing characteristics of warfare in the 19th and early on 20th centuries.
