A Cambridge zoologist turns to the small creatures that tormented troops in the trenches: lice, fleas, bedbugs, house-flies, mites, ticks and leeches. For each he explains its life history, the diseases it carries and how soldiers might protect themselves, with dry wit at the expense of wartime pamphleteers.
An unusual, often amusing view of the First World War through its parasites. Download the free EPUB.