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Wounded
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Narrated by:
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Nigel Anthony
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By:
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Emily Mayhew
About this listen
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 AudioGoListeners also enjoyed...
One of the lesser known subjects of The Great War.
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A must listen
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Then when I heard 'Wounded' I thought "YES, an Ambulance Train". So I will try to get one done in time for my third book, being published around Autumn. It will be my second volume of Verse.
But this Audio book 'Wounded', was an absolute eye opener and education for me.
Some of the examples of injuries to young servicemen, are very disturbing but the use of those train carriages, British nurses, and the little touches like making sure troops had a smoke when needed all helped to assure them, they were really on the way back home; and away from those awful places of death and pain.
And some of the examples of compassion shown by our nurses were certainly worth a good inclusion. Including the young girl in London, doing her bit by covering pillows. Staff on the London Ambulance and on the trains and boats from France to the UK.. The incredibly brave Bearers threading their way across No-man's-land to [relative] safety; the cries and moans of casualties very often attracting Sniper bullets and various shells. And not forgetting the ground-breaking work of Surgeons and Doctors, tasked with having to operate on injuries/wounds that were never dreamed possible before 1914.
If I buy a million audio books from now, this will always stand out above the others. I would be happy and honored to recommend this to anyone, whatever their interests. But with a warning - Be prepared to be shocked, inspired, and awe-struck. As 2018 is such an important year, marking the Centenary of the war's end, I DO consider it 'Good Timing' as my title suggests. I would also recommend 'Steaming To Victory, about wartime Railwaymen and women, many of whom were killed in the line of their duties. As the phrase went - 'They also fight who stay at home'.
HOWEVER- I would like to rise here, another audio book from the Great War- Breakdown.
The Author and Narrator both have my best regards I pity them for the nature of the material; specifically- the utterly caddish behavior of the Senior British officers, in dealing with the poor troops and M.O. of the 'Lonsdales'.
Based upon the accounts given, I have to say this was the trashiest thing I ever heard, of any nation's Army.
I can't help suspecting that Haig was involved somewhere in the outcomes for both Soldiers and Medical Officer.
And if not, than at least in spirit. Gough was after all, favorite of his. S.O.B is the best I can say of them.
To humiliate previously loyal and brave men that way, was the act of complete Ghouls.
But don't believe ME - it is all in the last 20 minutes of Part 1.
Jack D. Harrison.
Good Timing.
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An exceptional story
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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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