Defeated Flesh

This broadly contextualized study of militarization and medicalization during the Franco-Prussian War takes its cue from Pierre Nora's work on memory. While military and civilian medical activities during 1870-71 provide a pivot for Defeated Flesh, the narrative glances back into the state of French army medicine during the Second Empire and looks forward to the fate of injured war veterans on the eve of the Great War. In this, the book stands apart both from an older genre of military history concerned mainly with tactics or the histories of single regiments, battles, or ships, and from histories of medicine that seek to separate the military from the civil. Bertrand Taithe selects "war stories" as an organizational trope but is concretely interested in how events are remembered and retold, and in what the critical reading of print images, paintings, monuments, and other war memorabilia can tell us of war and its effects on the French psyche

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