Nurse Writers of the Great War

by Christine E. Hallett

The First World War was the first 'total war'. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784992526
• ISBN13: 9781784992521
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"