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Bibliography of surgery and medicine of the Great War

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"Hospital Blues" (from the collection of David Cohen)

The bibliography owes a great deal to a number of contributors. The most recent of my contacts are Gary Mitchell from Rochester NY who has made a particular study of the medical units from the United States and whose own list is now included, and Roger Coy, who has supplied several texts previously unkown to us.

Dated 12th October 2006: It is with great regret that we have to inform you of the death yesterday of Denis McDonnell of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Denis was a bookseller who specialised in WW1 literature; we were put in touch with him over 10 years ago and he seemed to devote most of his professional life to sourcing medical books for the Gillies Archive. That, of course, was not quite true, as there are many within the WW1 history community who thought he was working exclusively, and tirelessly, for them! However it is a great blow. Certainly we would claim, here in the UK, that the book collection in the Gillies Archive, which is the most complete in the world, owes its very existence to Denis' enthusiasm and it will be a fitting memorial to him.

Denis died following surgical complications and our best wishes and condolences go out to Bonnie and his family.

Updated 13th March 2008