The Meuse‐Argonne offensive, a decisive battle during the First World War, is the largest
frontline commitment in American military history involving 1· 2 million US troops. With over …

Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the
Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination …

The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the
middle of the 20th reveals important themes in the colonial enterprise across the territory that …

The emergence of tetanus in wounded soldiers during the first months of the First World War
(WWI) resulted from combat on richly manured fields in Belgium and Northern France, the …

This article is looking at colonial governance with regard to leprosy, comparing two settings
of the Dutch colonial empire: Suriname and the Dutch East Indies. Whereas segregation …

For over 150 years, the Red Cross has brought succour to the world's needy, from sick and
wounded soldiers on the battlefield, to political detainees, to those suffering the effects of …

The Dutch East Indies Red Cross (NIRK) took action in 1873 when the Aceh War broke out,
which lasted several decades. In this war the organization's neutrality was tested, but it …

For centuries pictures of the dead and wounded have been part and parcel of war
communications. Often the intentions were clear, ranging from medical instructions to anti …

This paper examines the relationship, often claimed as beneficial, between war and
advances in medicine and surgery. Some of the conflicting opinions that have been …

Military and medical history are two of the oldest branches of the discipline but so far there
has been little interest in the synthesis of the two. Military historians have often failed to see …