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A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front

Author : Olive Dent
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 075355075X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front written by Olive Dent and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starring Oona Chaplin as a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment), and Suranne Jones and Hermione Norris as trained nurses, The Crimson Field is a gripping drama set in a tented hospital on the coast of France, where plucky real-life V.A.D. Olive Dent served two years of the Great War, and kept this extraordinarily vivid diary of day-to-day life – ever cheerful through the bitter cold, the chilblains, hunger and exhaustion. Resilient, courageous and resourceful, nurses, doctors and patients alike do their best to support each other. A Christmas fancy-dress ball, a concert performed by a stoic orchestra covered in bandages, church services held in a marquee and letters from Blighty all keep spirits up in camp, as wounded soldiers suffer terribly with quiet dignity on the makeshift wards, and nurses rush round tirelessly to make them as comfortable as possible. With original illustrations throughout by fellow V.A.D.s, Olive’s memoir is a fascinating period piece, a rare first-hand account of this little-known story, which will resonate very strongly with viewers of The Crimson Field.

A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front

Author : Olive Dent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front written by Olive Dent and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nurse Writers of the Great War

Author : Christine Hallett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996327
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Nurse Writers of the Great War written by Christine Hallett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare.

Easing Pain on the Western Front

Author : Paul E. Stepansky
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680019
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Easing Pain on the Western Front written by Paul E. Stepansky and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.

Ordinary Heroes

Author : Sally White
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445676672
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Heroes written by Sally White and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major unsung humanitarian role of British civilians and charities in the Great War and the tremendous bravery and suffering of the volunteers.

Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587476
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War written by Lynn McDonald and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.

Veiled Warriors

Author : Christine E. Hallett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198703694
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Veiled Warriors written by Christine E. Hallett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Allied nursing in the First World War, offering a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the Allied cause.

Information Bulletin

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

First World War Nursing

Author : Alison S. Fell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134626924
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book First World War Nursing written by Alison S. Fell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that takes into account multiple facets of Allied wartime nursing: historical contexts (history of the profession, recruitment, teaching, different national socio-political contexts), popular cultural stereotypes (in propaganda, popular culture) and longstanding gender norms (woman-as-nurturer). They draw on a wide range of hitherto neglected historical sources, including diaries, novels, letters and material culture. The result is a fully-rounded new study of nurses’ unique and compelling perspectives on the unprecedented experiences of the First World War.

Dear Miss Kopp

Author : Amy Stewart
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358093120
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Dear Miss Kopp written by Amy Stewart and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indomitable Kopp sisters are tested at home and aboard in this warm and witty tale of wartime courage and camaraderie.

Dorothea's War

Author : Dorothea Crewdson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297869191
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Dorothea's War written by Dorothea Crewdson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War, published for the first time. A rare insight into the great war for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE. In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Tréport in northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a diary. 'Who knows how long we shall really be out here? Seems a good chance from all reports of the campaigns being ended before winter but all is uncertain.' Dorothea would go on to witness and record some of the worst tragedy of the First World War at first hand, though somehow always maintaining her optimism, curiosity and high spirits throughout. The pages of her diaries sparkle with warmth and humour as she describes the day-to-day realities and frustrations of nursing near the frontline of the battlefields, or the pleasure of a beautiful sunset, or a trip 'joy-riding' in the French countryside on one of her precious days off. One day she might be gossiping about her fellow nurses, or confessing to writing her diary while on shift on the ward, or illustrating the scene of the tents collapsing around them on a windy night in one of her vivid sketches. In another entry she describes picking shells out of the beds on the ward after a terrifying air raid (winning a medal for her bravery in the process). Nearly a hundred years on, what shines out above all from the pages of these extraordinarily evocative diaries is a courageous, spirited, compassionate young woman, whose story is made all the more poignant by her tragically premature death at the end of the war just before she was due to return home.

The Backwash of War

Author : Ellen Newbold La Motte
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Backwash of War written by Ellen Newbold La Motte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This war has been described as "Months of boredom, punctuated by moments of intense fright." The writer of these sketches has experienced many "months of boredom," in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium. During these months, the lines have not moved, either forward or backward, but have remained dead-locked, in one position. Undoubtedly, up and down the long-reaching kilometres of "Front" there has been action, and "moments of intense fright" have produced glorious deeds of valour, courage, devotion, and nobility. But when there is little or no action, there is a stagnant place, and in a stagnant place there is much ugliness. Much ugliness is churned up in the wake of mighty, moving forces. We are witnessing a phase in the evolution of humanity, a phase called War-and the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War. It is very ugly. There are many little lives foaming up in the backwash. They are loosened by the sweeping current, and float to the surface, detached from their environment, and one glimpses them, weak, hideous, repellent. After the war, they will consolidate again into the condition called Peace. After this war, there will be many other wars, and in the intervals there will be peace. So it will alternate for many generations. By examining the things cast up in the backwash, we can gauge the progress of humanity. When clean little lives, when clean little souls boil up in the backwash, they will consolidate, after the final war, into a peace that shall endure. But not till then.

Eighteen Months in the War Zone: The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front (1916)

Author : Kate John Finzi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104737948
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Eighteen Months in the War Zone: The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front (1916) written by Kate John Finzi and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Lectures On The Formation Of Character, Temptations And Mission Of Young Men (1853), by Rufus Wheelwright Clark, is a replication of a book originally published before 1861. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Author : Jerry Palmer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030828751
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany written by Jerry Palmer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric—examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.

Sister Soldiers of the Great War

Author : Cynthia Toman
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774832169
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Sister Soldiers of the Great War written by Cynthia Toman and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am on night duty ... on what is supposed to be the ‘hopeless ward’ so you can imagine, or try to, just what I am doing. I know you cannot really have the faintest idea ...” In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. These experienced professional nurses left their friends, families, and jobs to enlist in the army. Granted relative rank and equal pay to men, they had a mandate to salvage as many sick and wounded men as possible for return to the front lines. Nothing prepared them for poor living conditions, the scale of casualties, or the type of wounds they encountered, but their letters and diaries reveal that they were determined to soldier on under all circumstances while still “living as well as possible.”

Great War and Women's Consciousness

Author : Claire M. Tylee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349204544
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Great War and Women's Consciousness written by Claire M. Tylee and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-12-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary memory of the Great War is dominated by the writings of Sassoon and Owen, Graves and Blunden. The voice is a male voice. This book is a study of what women wrote about militarism and world war 1

Nurses of Passchendaele

Author : Christine E. Hallett
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526702908
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Nurses of Passchendaele written by Christine E. Hallett and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian coasts, nurses of many nations cared for these traumatized and damaged men.Drawing on letters, diaries and personal accounts from archives all over the world, The Nurses of Passchendaele tells their stories - faithfully recounting their experiences behind the Ypres Salient in one of the most intense and prolonged casualty evacuation processes in the history of modern warfare. Nurses themselves came under shellfire and were vulnerable to aerial bombardment, and some were killed or injured while on active service.Alongside an analysis of the intricacies of their practice, the book traces the personal stories of some of these extraordinary women, revealing the courage, resilience and compassion with which they did their work.