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The V.A.Ds - Accounts of the Voluntary Aid Detachment During the First World War 1914-18-A Green Tent in Flanders by Maud Mortimer, A V.A.D. in France by Olive Dent & Britain's Civilian Volunteers by Thekla Bowser (Paperback)
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The V.A.Ds - Accounts of the Voluntary Aid Detachment During the First World War 1914-18-A Green Tent in Flanders by Maud Mortimer, A V.A.D. in France by Olive Dent & Britain's Civilian Volunteers by Thekla Bowser (Paperback)
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Three accounts of the brave women volunteers of the V.A.Ds during
the Great War
Although the wars of the later 19th century, such as the American
Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, offered insights into what
warfare would become as the industrial age developed, nothing could
prepare anyone for the global conflict that became the First World
War. Here was a lethal combination of warring nations, whose troops
were armed with the most sophisticated weapons that technology
could devise, each with the means of mass production to manufacture
and deliver them. For the first time it was possible to wage war on
a grand scale on land, in the air and beneath and upon the oceans.
This was a war where millions of men took part in battle and, in
consequence, stripped the production and support services
workforces from their home countries. Women, already impatient for
political reform, stepped forward to make a vital contribution to
the war effort and in so doing changed their status in western
society forever. There were many volunteer organisations who were
relied upon to support the fighting troops, including the Scottish
Women's Hospitals, the F.A.N.Ys, the Y.M.C.A and those who are the
subject of this book-the V.A.Ds-the Voluntary Aid Detachments.
Three quarters of V.A.Ds were women and girls and they became
ambulance drivers, mechanics, cooks, clerks and learned trades
which were normally the province of men. But it is in their role as
nurses during the conflict for which they are especially
remembered. The V.A.Ds included both trained and untrained nurses
who worked principally under the direction of the Red Cross and the
Order of St. John. This special Leonaur book about the V.A.Ds,
published to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First
World War, contains three essential and riveting first-hand acounts
by those who served, and provides invaluable insights into the
developing role of women during those years of crisis.
Recommended.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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