Awards
- Short-listed for Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 (New Zealand)
Overview
For New Zealanders, the First World War was not just a grueling conflict but also the nation's biggest health challenge. Military personnel had to deal with horrific injuries caused by high velocity bullets, artillery fire and chemical weapons. Infectious diseases were a constant and grave threat. Health professionals prepared and supported the 100,000 New Zealand servicemen and servicewomen who served overseas, while those who stayed at home had to fill the gaps left by absent colleagues. In the midst of this, the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic hit both troops overseas and New Zealanders at home. For the first time, this book tells the collective story of how our troops were supported and cared for by dedicated teams of doctors, nurses, dentists, ambulance officers, orderlies and sanitation and hygiene workers, and the important role of veterinarians in caring for horses. It explores the coming of age of New Zealand health services and details such significant figures as Henry Pickerill and Harold Gillies, who rebuilt shattered faces and treated burn victims - in doing becoming the fathers of plastic surgery. Battlefield Medicine celebrates the way New Zealanders delivered the best of healthcare under the most difficult circumstances.
Full Product Details
Author: Anna Rogers
Publisher: Massey University Press
Imprint: Massey University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 19.00cm
, Height: 3.70cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 1.530kg
ISBN: 9780995100190
ISBN 10: 0995100195
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 08 December 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This is a a book will grace any bookshelf or coffee table but dont expect anyone who casually picks it up to merely flick through and then put it down. This book draws you in and doesnt let you leave unchanged. . . . With Them Through Hell is a gripping, well-researched and fluidly written history. Its a milestone volume. Sue Wootton, Corpus
Author Information
Anna Rogers has an MA in English from Canterbury University and has spent most of her working life as a freelance fiction and non-fiction book editor. She has also been a bookseller and a sub-editor for the Listener. Her eight books of non-fiction include While You’re Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899–1948 and illustrated histories of the West Coast and Canterbury. Anna co-edited Annie’s War: A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 1916–19 (2014) and contributed an essay to How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War (2014). She has also edited an anthology of writing about Christchurch and adapted books for radio, and she is a regular book reviewer.
