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And here's with the Great War Premium episode Number 26.

This episode begins our four-part series on the medical side of the war.

As we have discussed many times before, the First World War was a conflict on a scale that had

never before been imagined.

There would be 20 million men wounded during the conflict, and this would also require medical

care on a scale never before imagined.

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