Professor Richard A. Gabriel

Between Flesh and Steel

A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"First Nebraska paperback printing: 2016."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781612348223
• ISBN-10: 161234822X
• Artikelnr.: 44158977

Autorenporträt

Richard A. Gabriel is a distinguished professor in the Department of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He is a former U.S. Army officer and the author of more than forty books, including Man and Wound in the Ancient World: A History of Military Medicine from Sumer to the Fall of Constantinople (Potomac, 2011) and The Madness of Alexander the Great and the Myth of Military Genius.

Inhaltsangabe

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