Book Review The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo-American Cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918) (The History of Medicine in Context.) By Charles F. Wooley. 321 pp. Aldershot, Hampshire, England, Ashgate, 2002. $99.95. 0-7546-0595-7

2003 ◽  
Vol 348 (16) ◽  
pp. 1611-1612 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Martin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The U.S

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas I. Faith
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Chemical Warfare ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

This book documents the institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS), the U.S. Army organization responsible for chemical warfare, from its origins in 1917 through Amos A. Fries's departure as CWS chief in 1929. It examines the U.S. chemical warfare program as it developed before the nation began sending soldiers to fight in France during World War I; the American Expeditionary Force's experiences with poison gas on the Western Front; the CWS's struggle to continue its chemical weapons program in a hostile political environment after the war; and CWS efforts to improve its public image as well as its reputation in the military in the first half of the 1920s. The book concludes with an assessment of the CWS's successes and failures in the second half of the 1920s. Through the story of the CWS, the book shows how the autonomy of the military-industrial complex can be limited when policymakers are confronted with pervasive, hostile public opinion.

Book Review: Master of the airs

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-155
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Model Aircraft ◽  
History Of

Sydney Camm and the Hurricane: Perspectives on the Master Fighter Designer and his finest Achievement . Edited by Dr John W. Fozard, F.R.S. Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury, 1992. Pp. 256, £25.00. ISBN 1-85310-2709 Dr Fozard has collected tributes to Sir Sydney Camm’s design leadership from 11 people. The book is excellently illustrated by many photographs, some of which are cheerfully informal. Photographs of aircraft on the ground and in flight give a history of the development of Hawker fighters, beginning with the biplane types and extending through the Hurricane and Hunter to today’s Harrier, In Dr Fozard’s introduction we see Sydney Camm at school at Windsor in 1902 wearing an Eton collar and the medal issued to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII. Sir Robert Lickley’s chapter begins with an illustration of the teenage Camm and several other boys with their model aircraft of pre World War I vintage. From then on, there was no doubt about the direction of his life’s work.

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