Jeffrey Reznick

Healing the nation

Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britainâ s â generation of 1914â was a group bound as much by comradeship of healing as by comradeship of the trenches. -- .

Produktdetails

• Cultural History of Modern War
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780719069758
• ISBN-10: 0719069750
• Artikelnr.: 33615534

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey S. Reznick is Deputy Chief of the History of Medicine Division at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, a member of Birmingham's Centre for First World War Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [for the dust jacket]: Jeffrey S. Reznick is Executive Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Fund. A native of Rochester, New York, he received his undergraduate education at the University of Rochester and holds a doctorate in history from Emory University. He lives in Washington, DC. This is his first book. To contact the author, please email [e-mail].

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Preface 1. Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in
Britain during the Great War 2. Homes away from home: Rest huts and
war-weary soldiers 3. Havens for heroes: Life in two military hospitals 4.
Hospital magazines: Writing about wartime recovery/recovering writing about
wartime 5. Wartime convalescence: The case of the convalescent blues 6.
Reclaiming the maimed at Shepherd's Bush Military Hospital, London 7.
Conclusion: Memories, legacies and landmarks Select bibliography Index