Acknowledgements; Introduction: Limping Back to Life after War; Chapter 1: Index, Ghost, Dream; Chapter 2: Reality, Disillusionment, Play; Chapter 3: War Life, Life as War; Chapter 4: Prosthetic Irony: The Ghost in the Machine; Chapter 5: The Prosthesis and Burial, Or Caring for the Dead; Chapter 6: Body and Metaphor; Conclusion: Leaving the Island; Notes.