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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
October 28, 2014
Pages
359
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780198703693
ISBN-10
0198703694
Dimensions
1.50 by 5.50 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.30 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
university press
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The Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918 | Roses Of No Mans Land | The Backwash of War | Dorothea's War | Wounded | A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front | Women in the War Zone
The Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918 | Roses Of No Mans Land | The Backwash of War | Dorothea's War | Wounded | A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front | Women in the War Zone
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment.
Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology. They came to be seen as self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatant and doctors' handmaidens, rather than being appreciated as trained professionals performing significant work in their own right.
Christine Hallett challenges these myths to reveal the true story of allied nursing in the First World War - one which is both more complex and more absorbing. Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, Veiled Warriors offers a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts.
Nurses believed they were involved in a multi-layered battle. Primarily, they were fighting for the lives of their patients on the 'second battlefield' of casualty clearing stations, transports, and military hospitals. Beyond this, they were an integral component of the allied military machine, putting their own lives at risk in field hospitals close to the front lines, on board hospital ships vulnerable to enemy submarine attack, and in base hospitals subject to heavy bombardment.
As working women in a sometimes hostile, chauvinistic world, allied nurses were also fighting to gain recognition for their profession and political rights for their sex. For them, military nursing might help to win not only the war itself, but also a more powerful voice for women in the post-war world.
Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology. They came to be seen as self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatant and doctors' handmaidens, rather than being appreciated as trained professionals performing significant work in their own right.
Christine Hallett challenges these myths to reveal the true story of allied nursing in the First World War - one which is both more complex and more absorbing. Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, Veiled Warriors offers a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts.
Nurses believed they were involved in a multi-layered battle. Primarily, they were fighting for the lives of their patients on the 'second battlefield' of casualty clearing stations, transports, and military hospitals. Beyond this, they were an integral component of the allied military machine, putting their own lives at risk in field hospitals close to the front lines, on board hospital ships vulnerable to enemy submarine attack, and in base hospitals subject to heavy bombardment.
As working women in a sometimes hostile, chauvinistic world, allied nurses were also fighting to gain recognition for their profession and political rights for their sex. For them, military nursing might help to win not only the war itself, but also a more powerful voice for women in the post-war world.
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from Oxford Univ Pr (October 28, 2014)
9780198703693 | details & prices | 359 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $34.95
About: Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment.
About: Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment.
With Martin Butler (other contributor) |
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This edition also contains Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance
This edition also contains Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance
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