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Always the Children - A Nurse's Story of Home and War (Paperback)
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Always the Children - A Nurse's Story of Home and War (Paperback)
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List price R225
Loot Price R156
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Anne Watts grew up in a small village in north Wales in the 1940s.
Inspired by school geography lessons that told of far-off lands,
she broke out of the conventional options open to women in post-war
Britain, defying her Merchant Navy father's dated views. She
trained as a nurse and midwife, joined the Save the Children Fund,
and was posted to Vietnam in 1967. One of only three British nurses
in the region, Anne was faced with a vision of hell that her
training at Manchester's Royal Infirmary had barely prepared her
for. Thrown in at the deep end, she witnessed the random cruelty of
warfare, nursing injured and orphaned children and caring for
wounded and dying servicemen. She went on to take her skills to the
victims of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, to Lebanon during the
Israeli occupation, and Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. Over some
forty-five years Anne has brought her courage and compassion to
those most in need of help. Woven into this vivid, compelling
memoir is perhaps the most moving story of all - how Anne's idyllic
childhood was shattered by a shocking family tragedy when she was
10 years old. A tragedy that was to shape her destiny.
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