Sisters of the Somme

True Stories from a First World War Field Hospital

Penny Starns (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6162-2 (ISBN)

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With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some responding to a vocational or religious calling, others following a sweetheart to the front, and some carried away on the jingoistic patriotism that gripped the nation in 1914. Despite their training, these young women were ill-prepared for the anguished cries of the wounded and the stench of gangrene and trench foot awaiting them at the Somme. Isolated from friends and family, most discovered an inner strength, forging new and close relationships with each other and establishing a camaraderie that was to last through the war and beyond. Based on the previously unpublished true stories of its nurses and medical staff, this book is a heart-warming account of the joys and sorrows of life in an extraordinary Somme field hospital.

Penny Starnshas a PhD in the history of medicine from the University of Bristol and is an established historian and writer. She is the author of "Odette: World War Two s Darling Spy," "Surviving Tenko: The True Story of Margot Turner," and" Blitz Families: The Children who Stayed Behind.""

Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 192 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7509-6162-7 / 0750961627
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-6162-2 / 9780750961622
Zustand	Neuware