CONTENTS

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1 The Emergence of Modern Warfare: 1453 to the Twenty-First Century

2 The Renaissance and the Rebirth of the Empirical Spirit

3 The Seventeenth Century: Gunpowder and Slaughter

4 The Eighteenth Century: The First Effective Military Medical Systems

5 The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Amputation

6 The Twentieth Century: The Emergence of Modern Military Medicine

7 The Twenty-First Century: Unconventional Warfare

8 Some Thoughts on War

Bibliography

Index

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