Dr. Hans Käfer Field surgery. Guide for the Wehrmacht medical officer. Dresden / Leipzig, Theodor Steinkopff Verlag 407 pages, with foreword including facsimile signature by Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handloser (Senior General, Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Department and Army Medical Inspector), 79 illustrations - the author was a retired Senior General Physician. Organization of the military medical troops and the deployment of the medical troops. The weapons of war and their effects (cutting, stabbing and firearms, projectiles, armored fighting vehicles in their effect as vehicles) Transport and transportability of the war injured. The X-ray machine in the field and its application. General surgical technique in the field. Field surgical guidelines for the medical officer (immediate danger to life, seriously injured, slightly wounded, transport urgency), medical tactics, wagon stopping point, main first aid point, field hospital, collection point for slightly wounded) accommodation, nutrition, asepsis, antisepsis, sterilization. Disinfection, surgery, bandage. Assessment of war injuries and their initial treatment. Infection of war wounds. Collapse and shock, relief of pain in the field. Bleeding, stopping bleeding in the field. Bleeding and blood replacement. Fresh gunshot wounds to the brain skull, face, eyes, jaw, mouth, neck, chest, abdomen, urinary and sexual organs, back, spine, spinal cord and limbs.