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Drawing on a vast range of sources, this is a study of how war wounds men's minds and of medicine's efforts to heal the damage done. At once a historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it tells the full story of "shell-shock", explaining the aftermath of wars such as Vietnam.

(Paperback)

When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they confronted a terrible challenge, inside the camp were people, who would die unless they received immediate medical attention. This is the story of the men and women who faced that challenge to save the inmates of Belsen.

(Paperback)

After the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over.

(Paperback)

How did the human brain evolve Why did it evolve as it did What is man's place in evolution This book explores the big ideas about the brain, the nervous system and man's place in history. It reveals how science actually works - the passions, the irrational flashes, the moments of insight; the big ideas that work and turn out to be wrong.

(Hardback)

'This is a book about real people, real stories, real heroes. You might not know their faces, and you might not know their names - but once you've met them, you'll never forget them.'