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- Title: Military Books: Battlefront Nurses Tell Their Stories
- Author : Esprit De Corps
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: History,Books,Professional & Technical,Engineering,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
Description
"There were nurses in blue, nurses in grey, nurses in white veils, nurses in black veils, volunteers with red crosses on their sleeves, and many variations in between. They bustled through the wards of giant general hospitals in England, lurched on hospital trains barrelling toward the French interior, slogged through inches of mobile ambulance mud, kept watch under dripping canvas marquees, shooed swarming flies from open wounds in the Mediterranean heat or matured their sea legs on hospital ships plying the Atlantic." This quote from historian Shawna Quinn is a sweeping description of the thousands of military nurses who served the Allied cause during the Great War. While most histories of the period describe the experience of soldiers in great detail, few explore the contributions made by these brave women. Thankfully, three compelling new books are helping to bridge that gap. Shawna Quinn's beautifully written book, Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War, vividly documents the experience of New Brunswick Nursing Sister Agnes Warner during her four years on the Western Front. The work of military nurses from New Zealand and Australia is explored in detail in The Other Anzacs by journalist Peter Rees. And in Battlefront Nurses: The Canadian Army Medical Corps in England, France and Salonika 1914-1919, writer Maureen Duffus examines four years in the lives of two British Columbia nursing sisters.