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Author |
: Jerry Palmer |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2021-10-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030828752 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030828751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany by : Jerry Palmer
Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric—examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.
Author |
: Olive Dent |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2014-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780753550755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 075355075X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front by : Olive Dent
Starring Oona Chaplin as a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment), and Suranne Jones and Hermione Norris as trained nurses, The Crimson Field is a gripping drama set in a tented hospital on the coast of France, where plucky real-life V.A.D. Olive Dent served two years of the Great War, and kept this extraordinarily vivid diary of day-to-day life – ever cheerful through the bitter cold, the chilblains, hunger and exhaustion. Resilient, courageous and resourceful, nurses, doctors and patients alike do their best to support each other. A Christmas fancy-dress ball, a concert performed by a stoic orchestra covered in bandages, church services held in a marquee and letters from Blighty all keep spirits up in camp, as wounded soldiers suffer terribly with quiet dignity on the makeshift wards, and nurses rush round tirelessly to make them as comfortable as possible. With original illustrations throughout by fellow V.A.D.s, Olive’s memoir is a fascinating period piece, a rare first-hand account of this little-known story, which will resonate very strongly with viewers of The Crimson Field.
Author |
: Nora Elizabeth Daly |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2011-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781462043514 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1462043518 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of a World War I Nurse by : Nora Elizabeth Daly
Nora's memoirs describe her time spent training during her tour of duty through WWI France. Nora dutifully recorded her experiences, emotions and her growing relationship with the man who would eventually become her husband.
Author |
: Grace McDougall |
Publisher |
: London : W. Heinemann [1917] |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 1917 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89100091537 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nursing Adventures by : Grace McDougall
Author |
: Ruth Cowen |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2012-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857202246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857202243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Nurse at the Front by : Ruth Cowen
This, the first in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, will tell a story that is rarely heard: the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First World War. Incredibly, Edith Appleton served in France for the whole of the conflict. Her bravery and dedication won her the Military OBE, the Royal Red Cross and the Belgian Queen Elizabeth medal among others. Her diary details with compassion all the horrors of the 'war to end wars', including the first use of poison gas and the terrible cost of battles such as Ypres, but she also records what life was like for nurses and how she spent her time off-duty. There are moments of humour amongst the tragedy, and even lyrical accounts of the natural beauty that still existed amidst all the destruction.
Author |
: Paul E. Stepansky |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2019-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476680019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476680019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Easing Pain on the Western Front by : Paul E. Stepansky
World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.
Author |
: Christine Hallett |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2016-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784996321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784996327 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nurse Writers of the Great War by : Christine Hallett
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare.
Author |
: Evelyn Monahan |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307424785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307424782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis And If I Perish by : Evelyn Monahan
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them. For more than half a century these women’s experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of reasearch and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war. From the North African and Italian Campaigns to the Liberation of France and the Conquest of Germany, U.S. Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the frontlines with grit, humor, and great heroism. A long overdue work of history, And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy.
Author |
: Ellen N. La Motte |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2019-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421426723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421426722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Backwash of War by : Ellen N. La Motte
Banned in multiple countries for its frank depiction of the horrors of war, Ellen N. La Motte's The Backwash of War is one of the most stunning antiwar books ever published. "We are witnessing a phase in the evolution of humanity, a phase called War—and the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War. It is very ugly."—Ellen N. La Motte In September 1916, as World War I advanced into a third deadly year, an American woman named Ellen N. La Motte published a collection of stories about her experience as a war nurse. Deemed damaging to morale, The Backwash of War was immediately banned in both England and France and later censored in wartime America. At once deeply unsettling and darkly humorous, this compelling book presents a unique view of the destruction wrought by war to the human body and spirit. Long neglected, it is an astounding book by an extraordinary woman and merits a place among major works of WWI literature. This volume gathers, for the first time, La Motte's published writing about the First World War. In addition to Backwash, it includes three long-forgotten essays. Annotated for a modern audience, the book features both a comprehensive introduction to La Motte's war-time writing in its historical and literary contexts and the first extended biography of the "lost" author of this "lost classic." Not only did La Motte boldly breach decorum in writing The Backwash of War, but she also forcefully challenged societal norms in other equally remarkable ways, as a debutante turned Johns Hopkins–trained nurse, pathbreaking public health advocate and administrator, suffragette, journalist, writer, lesbian, and self-proclaimed anarchist.
Author |
: Mildred A. MacGregor |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2008-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472033317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 047203331X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis World War II Front Line Nurse by : Mildred A. MacGregor
The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War