Spike Island
Book description
The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.
It was the biggest hospital ever built. Stretching for a quarter…
Why read it?
1 author picked Spike Island as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A biography of an extraordinary building: the biggest hospital ever built, to contain the casualties of Britain's biggest and worst wars from Crimea to World War Two. Perhaps the most original work of medical historical writing in the English language, as the ghosts of the nurses, doctors, and their broken shell-shocked patients haunt its pages and its writer through his family connections.
From Emily's list on human casualties of World War One.
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