Combat Medicine Operations Manual - From the Korean War to Afghanistan
                                
                                
                             
                            
                         
                            
                            
                        Since the discovery and widespread use of penicillin in the Second World War there have been enormous changes in surgical and nursing techniques enabling frontline medical teams to save soldiers' lives and alleviate suffering on the battlefield. Dr Penny Starns gives a detailed, insightful account of battlefield medicine from Korea to Afghanistan.