Emily Mayhew: A Heavy Reckoning [2018] paperback Condition:New encounters with a 'superior being'

encounters with a 'superior being' and extraordinary judgments at the borders of death are revealed

great storytelling and a spine-tingling twist

It also casts an astonishing new light on such events as the Renaissance and the Crusades

Yet despite her victories

He loves his son Sam

Emily Mayhew: A Heavy Reckoning [2018] paperback Condition:New encounters with a 'superior being'What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death and come back? As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death. Historian Emily Mayhew explores the reality of medicine and injury in wartime, from the trenches of World War One to the plains