Wartime Nurse: One Hundred Years from the Crimea to Korea 1854-1954 (Isis (Paperback Large Print)) [Large Print] [Paperback]

Eric Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2002 | Series: Isis (Paperback Large Print)

Wartime Nurse recounts the amazing exploits of nurses working in battle zones spanning wars from the Crimea to Korea—years when such nurses struggled for official recognition. Florence Nightingale's nurses defied male prejudice and the conventions of the age by caring for soldiers in hospitals seething with cholera. Reports from the South African wars of 1899-1902 told of nurses calmly dressing wounds in a street while shells exploded around them. In the First World War, over 10,000 nurses and 23,000 women of Voluntary Aid Detachments served not only in France but world-wide, from the ice-bound port of Archangel to the oven-like heat of Mesopotamia.

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About the Author

Born in Morecambe, Lancashire, Eric Taylor served as a wartime infantry officer in North Africa and Italy. He was for many years an RAF Squadron Leader in Germany. A graduate of Manchester University, he has written several books on the Second World War including Operation Millennium, 'Bomber' Harris's Raid on Cologne, Women Who Went to War, 1938-46, Forces Sweethearts, Heroines of World War II, Showbiz Goes to War, Front-line Nurse and Combat Nurse, all published by Hale. Eric Taylor lives in York. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 346 pages
• Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books (December 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0753156245
• ISBN-13: 978-0753156247
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,685,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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