Fiona Reid is Head of Arts and Humanities at Newman University, Birmingham, where she teaches modern European History. She is the author of Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 and a co-author (with Sharif Gemie and Laure Humbert) of Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-1948 (2011).

[An] excellent history that will interest scholars of the First World War, the history of medicine, and modern European history more generally … [Reid’s] encyclopedic survey of the relevant history and scholarship on these topics is deeply impressive … [She] has rendered exceptionally well the sort of service historians owe both to their readers and to the people who make and live the history we read.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: War is Good for Medicine2. From the Trench to the Hospital3. Iconic Wounds: Gas, Shell Shock, Facial Injury4. Ordinary Soldiers and Ordinary Pain5. ‘We Did Not Fight’: Medical Pacifism and War6. Lessons and Legacies: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’NotesBibliographyIndex

Fiona Reid is Head of Arts and Humanities at Newman University, Birmingham, where she teaches modern European History. She is the author of Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 and a co-author (with Sharif Gemie and Laure Humbert) of Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-1948 (2011).

[An] excellent history that will interest scholars of the First World War, the history of medicine, and modern European history more generally … [Reid’s] encyclopedic survey of the relevant history and scholarship on these topics is deeply impressive … [She] has rendered exceptionally well the sort of service historians owe both to their readers and to the people who make and live the history we read.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: War is Good for Medicine2. From the Trench to the Hospital3. Iconic Wounds: Gas, Shell Shock, Facial Injury4. Ordinary Soldiers and Ordinary Pain5. ‘We Did Not Fight’: Medical Pacifism and War6. Lessons and Legacies: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’NotesBibliographyIndex

Fiona Reid is Head of Arts and Humanities at Newman University, Birmingham, where she teaches modern European History. She is the author of Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 and a co-author (with Sharif Gemie and Laure Humbert) of Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-1948 (2011).

[An] excellent history that will interest scholars of the First World War, the history of medicine, and modern European history more generally … [Reid’s] encyclopedic survey of the relevant history and scholarship on these topics is deeply impressive … [She] has rendered exceptionally well the sort of service historians owe both to their readers and to the people who make and live the history we read.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: War is Good for Medicine2. From the Trench to the Hospital3. Iconic Wounds: Gas, Shell Shock, Facial Injury4. Ordinary Soldiers and Ordinary Pain5. ‘We Did Not Fight’: Medical Pacifism and War6. Lessons and Legacies: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’NotesBibliographyIndex