....for that special someone this Christmas:



MUSKET-BALL AND SABRE INJURIES FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
M. H. Kaufman
Bookseller: Naval and Military Press Ltd
(Uckfield, East Sussex, UK, United Kingdom)





Price: US$ 80.43

Book Description: 255pp, hb. Musket-ball and Sabre Injuries covers a
fascinating aspect of military surgical history; the injuries and fatalities caused by
musket-balls and sabres of the early nineteenth century, and their treatment
by military surgeons.
 The best (only) book of its kind, October 3, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from UK
Kaufman and Carswell have written a book that is breathtaking in its scope
and depth. The book explores case studies and specimens from the battlefields of
the early nineteenth century and describes both the types of injuries and
their treatment in astounding detail. Although aimed at the specialist in
military history, military surgery and medical history, the book is a fascinating
read for anyone interested in war and the history of war, as beyond the mass of
technical information one can begin to understand the lives (and deaths) of
those described, and something of the horror of the everyday lives of soldiers on
the front. My friends, keen battle reenacters, read the book agog, whilst
their girlfriends, wives and partners gagged at the painful clarity of the
illustrations and photographs. The production quality is so high that it is not
surprising that the book is published by the Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh - no mainstream publisher would have had the courage to print something so
specialised at such a high quality - the profits would be too low. I would
recommend this book to academic libraries, medical institutions and the
inquisitive amateur war historian. There is no other book like it that I know of.