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Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790-1925 » Read Now
by John S. Haller Jr. 272 pgs.

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An Ambulating Hospital: Or, How the Hospital Train Transformed Army Medicine, in Civil War History » Read Now
by Alan Hawk. 22 pgs.

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Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service » Read Now
by H. H. Cunningham. 342 pgs.

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H.H. Cunningham's Doctors in Gray, first published more than thirty years ago, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Confederate army. Drawing on a prodigious array of sources, Cunningham paints as complete a picture as possible of the daunting task facing those charged with caring for the war's wounded and sick.
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Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy » Read Now
by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie. 216 pgs.

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Gallipoli: The Medical War the Australian Army Medical Services in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 » Read Now
by Michael B. Tyquin. 278 pgs.

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Analysis of the medical aspects of the Gallipoli campaign, with emphasis on the day-to-day reality of war for soldiers who suffered and died in appalling conditions directly attributable to medical maladministration. Includes maps, diagrams, tables, appendices, and chapter notes. The extensive...
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Analysis of the medical aspects of the Gallipoli campaign, with emphasis on the day-to-day reality of war for soldiers who suffered and died in appalling conditions directly attributable to medical maladministration. Includes maps, diagrams, tables, appendices, and chapter notes. The extensive bibliography cites numerous unpublished sources in addition to published references. Indexed.
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Nursing Gallipoli: Identity and the Challenge of Experience, in Journal of Australian Studies » Read Now
by Janet Butler. 10 pgs.

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They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II » Read Now
by Kathi Jackson. 220 pgs.

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A topical presentation of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could...
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A topical presentation of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could have made more money as civilians, thousands chose to leave the warmth and security of home to care for the young men who went off to war. They were not saints but vibrant women whose performance changed the face of both military and civilian nursing. Jackson's account follows both army and navy nurses from the time they joined the military, through their active service, to their lives today.
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Medic: The Mission of an American Military Doctor in Occupied Japan and Wartorn Korea » Read Now
by Crawford F. Sams, Zabelle Zakarian. 313 pgs.

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In the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Crawford F. Sams led the most unprecedented and unsurpassed reforms in public health history, as chief of the Public Health and Welfare Section of the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in East Asia. "Medic" is Sams's firsthand account of...
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In the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Crawford F. Sams led the most unprecedented and unsurpassed reforms in public health history, as chief of the Public Health and Welfare Section of the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in East Asia. "Medic" is Sams's firsthand account of public health reforms in Japan during the occupation and their significance for the formation of a stable and democratic state in Asia after World War II. "Medic" also tells of the strenuous efforts to control disease among refugees and civilians during the Korean War, which had enormously high civilian casualties. Sams recounts the humanitarian, military, and ideological reasons for controlling disease during military operations in Korea, where he served, first, as a health and welfare adviser to the U.S. Military Command that occupied Korea south of the 38th parallel and, later, as the chief of Health and Welfare of the United Nations Command. In presenting a larger picture of the effects of disease onthe course,of military operations and in the aftermath of catastrophic bombings and depravation, Crawford Sams has left a written document that reveals the convictions and ideals that guided his generation of military leaders.
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Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam » Read Now
by Elizabeth M. Norman. 214 pgs.

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Women Nurses in the Spanish-American War, in Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military » Read Now
by Mercedes H. Graf. 24 pgs.

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Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross » Read Now
by John F. Hutchinson. 456 pgs.

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The author of this polemical account of the Red Cross movement argues that the militaristic tendency has taken advantage of the Red Cross and that a spin off of this is the promotion of war by Red Cross itself!
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Medical Revolution in France, 1789-1796 » Read Now
by David M. Vess. 216 pgs.

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