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Petals and Bullets - Dorothy Morris -- New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
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Petals and Bullets - Dorothy Morris -- New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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"It was bright moonlight -- good bombing light -- and once we had
to stop and put out our lights as a Fascist aeroplane flew over.
They usually come swooping down with guns firing at cars,
especially ambulances. Finally we arrived at a town among the hills
about 12.30pm. Here there is a hospital of about 100 beds in a
former convent. They expect an attack tonight". In these words New
Zealand nurse Dorothy Morris described her journey to a Republican
medical unit of the Spanish civil war in early 1937. This book is
based on the vivid, detailed and evocative letters she sent from
Spain and other European countries. They have been supplemented by
wide-ranging research to record a life of outstanding professional
dedication, resourcefulness and courage. Dorothy Aroha Morris
(1904-1988) volunteered to serve with Sir George Young's University
Ambulance Unit, and worked at an International Brigades base
hospital and as head nurse to a renowned Catalan surgeon. She then
headed a Quaker-funded children's hospital in Murcia, southern
Spain. As Franco's forces advanced, she fled to France and directed
Quaker relief services for tens of thousands of Spanish refugees.
Nurse Morris spent the Second World War in London munitions
factories, as welfare supervisor to their all-female workforces.
She then joined the newly formed UN Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, working in the Middle East and Germany with those
who had been displaced and made homeless and destitute as a result
of the war. Dorothy Morris's remarkable and pioneering work in the
fields of military medicine for civilian casualties, and
large-scale humanitarian relief projects is told in this book for
the first time. Published in association with the Canada Blanch
Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.
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