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The Roses of No Man's Land (Paperback)
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The Roses of No Man's Land (Paperback)
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THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD 'On the face
of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped
for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight
out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the
First World War ...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to
the occasion. In leaking tents and draughty huts they fought
another war, a war against agony and death, as men lay suffering
from the pain of unimaginable wounds or diseases we can now cure
almost instantly. It was here that young doctors frantically forged
new medical techniques - of blood transfusion, dentistry,
psychiatry and plastic surgery - in the attempt to save soldiers
shattered in body or spirit. And it was here that women achieved a
quiet but permanent revolution, by proving beyond question they
could do anything. All this is superbly captured in The Roses of No
Man's Land, a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, yet
also of endurance and supreme courage. 'Lyn Macdonald writes
splendidly and touchingly of the work of the nurses and doctors who
fought their humanitarian battle on the Western Front' Sunday
Telegraph Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established
a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World
War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and
survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the
First World War. Most are published by Penguin.
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