Stitches of Survival: How a Tailor’s Needle Became a Lifeline on the Napoleonic Battlefield
When we think of the tools of war, our minds instinctively conjure images of destruction: the heavy iron of a cannon, the cold steel of a bayonet, the lethal spark of a flintlock pistol. We think of the things that tear the world apart. Rarely do we consider the instruments used to put it back together. Yet, in Thomas J. Wander’s sweeping historical novel, Urchin: Family History or...