TY - BOOK ID - 134868743 TI - Veiled warriors PY - 2014 SN - 9780198703709 9780198703693 0198703708 0191008710 9780191008719 0198703694 1322110778 9781322110776 0191008729 PB - Oxford, England DB - UniCat KW - Nurses KW - Military nursing KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - History KW - Medical care KW - Medical care. KW - World War (1914-1918) KW - 1900 - 1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134868743 AB - Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology. They came to be seen as self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatant and doctors' handmaidens, rather than being appreciated as trained professionals performing significant work in their own right. Christine Hallett challenges these myths to reveal the true story of allied nursing in the First World War - one which is both more complex and more absorbing. Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, this book offers a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. Nurses believed they were involved in a multi-layered battle. Primarily, they were fighting for the lives of their patients on the 'second battlefield' of casualty clearing stations, transports, and military hospitals. Beyond this, they were an integral component of the allied military machine, putting their own lives at risk in field hospitals close to the front lines, on board hospital ships vulnerable to enemy submarine attack, and in base hospitals subject to heavy bombardment. -- ER -