Angels of Mercy: A Women's Hospital on the Western Front, 1914-1918

They may have been angels of mercy. But they were also angels with attitude – real women, with real guts.

This is the little-known story of the gritty and free-spirited women who, in 1914, put aside their fight for the vote to set up a hospital in an abandoned French abbey to treat the appalling injuries sustained on the Western Front. Uniquely in that theatre, the hospital was staffed entirely by women – doctors, surgeons, nurses, bateriologists, radiographers, orderlies and ambulance driv...