This book focuses on the trench diseases-trench fever, trench nephritis and trench foot-and examines how doctors responded to them in the context of the Great War. It details the problems that they...
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers ...
September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. In France an...
How the Great War impacted Tolkien's life and work J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences of the Battle of the Somme forever imprinted on his mind, and became a dramatic source of inspiration for The Lord of...
The startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more...
Thirty-five years have passed since the death of the Master. But now a new evil walks among the living. . . . When nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from the trenches of World War I, he is haunte...