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War and disfigurement
The fighting methods of World War I brought with them a huge increase in disfiguring facial injury. See how surgeons and sculptors helped injured men face the world again.
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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The evolution of war-zone medicine
The need to deal with battlefield injuries has led to inventive designs for extreme situations. Find out how camel-drawn ambulances and flat-pack hospitals have helped casualties survive.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
War diaries 1914
Date: 1914Reference: RAMC/543/1-5Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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War Diaries of Colonel Cochrane, Sep-Dec 1917
Date: 1917Reference: RAMC/1186/1/1Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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War diaries Jan-Jun 1917
Date: 1917Reference: RAMC/543/18-23Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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War diaries Jul-Dec 1917
Date: 1917Reference: RAMC/543/24-29Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
War and social change : British society in the Second World War / edited by Harold L. Smith.
Date: [1986], ©1986