Harrison's writing about the fighting is gripping and the importance of medical developments is deftly interwoven with the wider campaigns. The book succeeds in throwing light, not just on the history of medicine during the Second World War, but also on the dual focus of health and medicine - the rise of high tech medicine and the transformation of social medicine - during the immediate post war years.

• Introduction ; 1. A Medical Service for a Modern Army? ; 2. Medicine in Retreat 1940-2 ; 3. The Western Desert 1940-3 ; 4. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy ; 5. Burma and North-East India ; 6. Medicine Victorious: North-West Europe 1944-5 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Harrison's writing about the fighting is gripping and the importance of medical developments is deftly interwoven with the wider campaigns. The book succeeds in throwing light, not just on the history of medicine during the Second World War, but also on the dual focus of health and medicine - the rise of high tech medicine and the transformation of social medicine - during the immediate post war years.

• Introduction ; 1. A Medical Service for a Modern Army? ; 2. Medicine in Retreat 1940-2 ; 3. The Western Desert 1940-3 ; 4. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy ; 5. Burma and North-East India ; 6. Medicine Victorious: North-West Europe 1944-5 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Harrison's writing about the fighting is gripping and the importance of medical developments is deftly interwoven with the wider campaigns. The book succeeds in throwing light, not just on the history of medicine during the Second World War, but also on the dual focus of health and medicine - the rise of high tech medicine and the transformation of social medicine - during the immediate post war years.

• Introduction ; 1. A Medical Service for a Modern Army? ; 2. Medicine in Retreat 1940-2 ; 3. The Western Desert 1940-3 ; 4. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy ; 5. Burma and North-East India ; 6. Medicine Victorious: North-West Europe 1944-5 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography