Sisters Heroic True-Life Stories from the Nurses of World War Two

Name: Sisters Heroic True-Life Stories from the Nurses of World War Two
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ISBN: 9780099547747

ISBN-10: 0099547740

ISBN-13: 9780099547747

Edition: 2013

Authors: Barbara Mortimer

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On 3 September 1939 the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Germany. Thousands of men signed up to train as soldiers and fight for their country. What is less well known is that thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were plucked from very different backgrounds and sent headlong into grueling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. This was a world of long hours, harsh discipline and extreme circumstances. Matrons, sisters, staff nurses and student nurses all worked to save men and women without antibiotics, disposable products or labour-saving equipment. Yet the authentic voices of the thousands of women whose acts of heroism and…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication date: 3/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.83" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English