Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany Playing Cards credited officially with a record-breaking

credited officially with a record-breaking 75 victories

biographies of known code talkers

and reader response questions

accused of being an enemy spy

Army sought to find an effective system to distinguish troops from different units

Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany Playing Cards credited officially with a record-breakingDescription by Heather R. Perry Paperback Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial, and governmental officials turned to medical experts for assistance in the total mobilisation of society. Through an investigation of developments in orthopaedic medicine, prosthetic