Women as army surgeons: Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919

Autumn mist gathers over the boulevards of wartime Paris as an ambulance rattles through the streets, carrying hope and defiance in equal measure. Against the unyielding backdrop of the First World War, a group of British women doctors and nurses set aside convention to forge a new path in military medicine, establishing the Women's Hospital Corps and transforming the care of wounded soldiers from Paris to Wimereux and, ultimately, to the renowned Endell Street hospital. With unflinching ho...