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Wounded

By: Emily Mayhew
Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
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Wounded traces the journey made by a casualty from the battlefield to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimony of those who cared for him - stretcher bearers and medical officers, surgeons and chaplains, orderlies and nurses - from the aid post in the trenches to the casualty clearing station and the ambulance train back to Blighty.

We feel the calloused hands of the stretcher-bearers; we see the bloody dressings and bandages; we smell the nauseating gangrene and, at London’s stations, the gas clinging to the uniforms of the men arriving home. There are the unspeakable injuries: the officer with a hole in his torso so big the doctor can see the sky beyond him; a man with no legs holding a hymnbook for a man with no arms.

Together, the experiences in Wounded encapsulate what it was to fight, live, and die for four long years at the Western Front. The first comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front, Wounded is an homage to the courageous and determined men and women who saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

©2013 Emily Mayhew (P)2013 Random House AudioGo Europe Great Britain History & Commentary Medicine & Health Care Industry Military Military & War World War I England War
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I liked the narrative. it gave an interesting, informative and individual view of people's experiences.

One of the lesser known subjects of The Great War.

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This was an insight into a different part of the Great War. It was one I found absorbing, and a informative on the wounded men and those who cared for them. It is strange to say I enjoyed it, but I did dispite the terrible injuries suffered. This is a book I recommend and will certainly listen again at a later date. Excellently narrated as well.

A Fascinating and insightful listen

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A wonderful book about war,death, mud, gas and hero’s seems wrong some how. But WW1 was hell on earth - meaningless deaths and absolutely abysmal conditions in the trench’s while those who gave the orders (usually old men who never saw a trench) sat it out in comfort in Blighty.

This book took me to the Somme, Pachendale and Verdunt among other places. I could smell the air and the hear the bombing plus the quietness of the Moribund ward…it’s so sad. All the hero’s - nurses, doctors, surgeons, the stretcher bearer’s, ambulance drivers…stories told individually but brought the whole book together..

The saddest thing really though is we still haven’t learnt..wars tearing the earth apart..we’ve no planet b and who was it that said “it’s all been futile..”

Listen to this book and go back in time to a hell on earth ….

A wonderful book about hell on earth…

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Sympathetically written account of soldier’s experiences of being wounded and the treatment they received. Wonderfully written and engaging narration. Loved this book.

Brilliant book

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Moving and touching stories of true heroes. This will stay with me for a long time

A must listen

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