Expanded & updated, this is the definitive history of British serial killing 1888-2020
- by the UK's leading criminologist,
What happens when you reach the threshold of life & death
- & come back?
As long as humans have lived together on the planet, there have been wars, & injured soldiers & civilians.
But today, as we engage in wars across the globe with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death. But how do we do it, & what happens next?
Mixing vivid & compelling stories of unexpected survival with astonishing insights into the frontline of medicine, A Heavy Reckoning is a book about how far we have come in saving, healing & restoring the human body.
But what are the costs involved in this hardest of journeys back from the brink?
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781781255858
• Author: Emily Mayhew
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 311
• Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 x 3cm