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Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war by focusing not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. Through a rich analysis of both published and unpublished personal accounts by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other medical personnel from the major wars of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Acton and Potter uncover a spectrum of responses to what was often unimaginable suffering, which ranged from breakdown to resilience, from exhausted resignation to firmer belief in humanity despite the brutalities of armed conflict. Organised chronologically, the book examines a broad range of writings and voices that have until now received little attention, including volunteer ambulance drivers in the First World War, POW doctors in the Second World War and medics in the Vietnam War. With a chapter dedicated to the recent narratives of medical personnel in Iraq, the study is highly topical and situates the life-writing from these contemporary wars within a larger tradition of war literature. Wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in methods, Working in a world of hurt puts the letters, diaries and memoirs that chronicle physical and emotional suffering centre stage, many for the first time. These testaments to the torment of combatants also - crucially - bear witness to the harrowing struggles of wartime healers. Scholarly yet accessible, it will appeal to lecturers and students as well as the general reader.

Medicine, Military. --- World War II. --- World War I. --- Vietnam Conflict. --- Personal Narratives as Topic. --- Military Nursing. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011. --- Military Personnel --- Military Medicine. --- Medicine, Military --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Nursing --- Military medicine --- Medicine --- Medicine, Naval --- Military hospitals --- Military hygiene --- War --- psychology. --- Medical aspects --- Relief of sick and wounded --- World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Personal narratives. --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- History --- Medicine / History of medicine --- HISTORY / Military / General. --- History of medicine. --- Psychological aspects. --- Medical aspects. --- Medicine and war --- War and medicine --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Doctors. --- Life-writing. --- Medical personnel. --- Nurses. --- Resilience. --- Trauma. --- War.

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The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and film Coving the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination. These newly researched and innovative essays connect 'high' literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively cover the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. Divided into 5 sections:20th-Century Wars and Their Literatures Bodies, Behaviors, Cultures The Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern War The Spaces of Modern War Genres of War Culture Key Features All-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historians Reflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume's approach, structure and breadth of coverage For scholars: core arguments and detailed research topics For students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful for studying the modern period and war modules.

Guerre --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature américaine --- War in literature. --- English literature --- American literature --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- War in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature américaine --- Dans la littérature.