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Veiled Warriors - Allied Nurses of the First World War (Paperback)
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Veiled Warriors - Allied Nurses of the First World War (Paperback)
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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.
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