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Author's Note
1. The Center of Gravity of the World
2. The Storekeeper's Son
3. Attributes Every Battle Surgeon Should Possess
4. Christian Left
5. Bread, Peace, and Liberty
6. Nine Months of Winter
7. A River of Blood
8. Urgent Need of Salvation
9. He Does Honor to His Name
10. The Safest Place in Spain
11. Changing the Front and the Weapons
12. The System, Not the Surgeon
13. The Tobruk Plaster
14. Merry Hell
15. Phantom Pain
16. Light in the Darkness
17. Saving from Submersion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: "Surgical Curiosities in Two Wars"
Notes
Bibliography
Index.