Nicholas Coni is a member of the Retired Fellows Society, Royal Society of Medicine. Previously, he was Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

"Nicholas Coni's book will be welcomed not only by students of the period but by those concerned to understand more generally the interactions between the waging of war and the practice of medicine … there cannot be many who would not gain something valuable from it." – Medicine, Conflict, and Survival

• Chapter 1 Medicine in pre-war SpainChapter 2 The war and the medical professionChapter 3 NursingChapter 4 Wound care Chapter 5 Blood transfusion comes of ageChapter 6 Famine and diseaseChapter 7 Organisation of medical servicesChapter 8 The International BrigadesChapter 9 Foreign medical support for FrancoChapter 10 Notes on some individual campaignsChapter 11 Some biographical notesChapter 12 Aftermath of war