Ebook: Between flesh and steel: a history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1 The Emergence of Modern Warfare: 1453 to the Twenty-First Century; 2 The Renaissance and the Rebirth of the Empirical Spirit; 3 The Seventeenth Century: Gunpowder and Slaughter; 4 The Eighteenth Century: The First Effective Military Medical Systems; 5 The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Amputation; 6 The Twentieth Century: The Emergence of Modern Military Medicine; 7 The Twenty-First Century: Unconventional Warfare; 8 Some Thoughts on War; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.;""War is the slaughter bench of history""--Hegel.