London 2001 Hard Cover 1st Edition New/New 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall 0709067771 "Wartime Nurse" recounts the amazing exploits of the nurses working in battle zones during the 100
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years spanning wars from the Crimea to Korea-years when such nurses struggled for official recognition. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale's nurses defied male prejudice and the conventions of the age by caring for soldiers in hospitals seething with cholera and 'awash with sewage'. Reports from the South African wars of 1899-1902 told of nurses calmly dressing wounds in a street whilst shells exploded around them. In the First World War, over 10, 000 nurses and 23, 000 women of Voluntary Aid Detachments served not only in France but world-wide, from the ice-bound port of Archangel to the oven-like heat of Mesopotamia, nursing thousands of battle casualties in tented hospitals rife with dysentery and malaria. By the outbreak of the Second World War, the wartime nurse had earned full recognition after the Forces were, finally
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Wartime Nurse recounts the amazing exploits of nurses working in battle zones spanning wars from the Crimea to Korea—years when such nurses struggled for official recognition. Florence Nightingale's nurses defied male prejudice and the conventions of the age by caring for soldiers in hospitals seething with cholera. Reports from the South African wars of 1899-1902 told of nurses calmly dressing wounds in a street while shells exploded around them. In the First World War, over 10,000 nurses and 23,000 women of ...