- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
They may have been angels of mercy. But they were also angels with attitude – real women, with real guts.
This is the little-known story of the gritty and free-spirited women who, in 1914, put aside their fight for the vote to set up a hospital in an abandoned French abbey to treat the appalling injuries sustained on the Western Front. Uniquely in that theatre, the hospital was staffed entirely by women– doctors, surgeons, nurses, bateriologists, radiographers, orderlies and ambulance drivers.
In the face of opposition from the military and medical establishments, and in the teeth of many hardships, they succeeded in establishing one of the most effective and longest-serving frontline military hospitals of the First World War.
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Yes, you can access Angels of Mercy by Eileen Crofton in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & British History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Author biography
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication of the First Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Map of the Western Front 1915
- 1 The Story Begins
- 2 The Hospital That Went to France
- 3 The First Year
- 4 1916: The Year of Testing
- 5 The Patients
- 6 1917: Strange Interlude
- 7 1918: Their Finest Hour
- 8 Aftermath: From Armistice to Closure
- Appendix I The Hospital: An Assessment
- Appendix II The Women
- Notes and References
- Bibliography
- Index