Blitz Hospital: True Stories of Nursing in Wartime London

by Penny Starns

Overview

When the Blitz hit London, everything changed. Once, the Home Front was relatively safe – now it wasn't. Suddenly, London was its own front line. Blitz Hospital follows the fortunes of two major London hospitals as they struggled to cope with mounting wartime casualties: St Thomas' and The London. The diaries, letters and reports of medical and nursing staff highlight the many human stories of tremendous courage and hope that lived and breathed within the corridors of London's hospitals during the Blitz.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750990318
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	11/01/2018
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

PENNY STARNS is an established historian and writer who has written about many heroines of the twentieth century. She is the author of many titles for The History Press, including Blitz Families: The Children who Stayed Behind (2012), Sisters of the Somme (2016) and Odette: World War Two’s Darling Spy (2018).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

1 Getting Ready for War 19

2 The Phoney War 31

3 The First Night of the Blitz 43

4 Taking to the Underground 55

5 The Relentless Symphony ofWar 70

6 Danger in Safety 83

7 Nursing the Enemy 95

8 The Second Great Fire of London 110

9 Prolonged-Air Raids 123

10 Medical Advances 147

11 Nursing in Crisis 160

12 Chaos and Controversy 174

13 The Mini Blitz 187

14 Victory 203

15 Post-War Reconstruction 218

Select Bibliography 233

Index 235