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Jane Potter rediscovers the neglected literature of war. Romance novels and active service memoirs are the focus of this critical, yet accessible, study. Illustrated throughout, it demonstrates the ways in which popular literature played its role in both the entertainment and the reassurance of the nation.

English literature --- Women and literature --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature publishing --- Women --- Languages & Literatures --- English --- English Literature --- Literature - General --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Personal narratives, British --- Publishing. --- Intellectual life --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Publishing

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Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war by focusing not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. Through a rich analysis of both published and unpublished personal accounts by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other medical personnel from the major wars of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Acton and Potter uncover a spectrum of responses to what was often unimaginable suffering, which ranged from breakdown to resilience, from exhausted resignation to firmer belief in humanity despite the brutalities of armed conflict. Organised chronologically, the book examines a broad range of writings and voices that have until now received little attention, including volunteer ambulance drivers in the First World War, POW doctors in the Second World War and medics in the Vietnam War. With a chapter dedicated to the recent narratives of medical personnel in Iraq, the study is highly topical and situates the life-writing from these contemporary wars within a larger tradition of war literature. Wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in methods, Working in a world of hurt puts the letters, diaries and memoirs that chronicle physical and emotional suffering centre stage, many for the first time. These testaments to the torment of combatants also - crucially - bear witness to the harrowing struggles of wartime healers. Scholarly yet accessible, it will appeal to lecturers and students as well as the general reader.

Medicine, Military. --- World War II. --- World War I. --- Vietnam Conflict. --- Personal Narratives as Topic. --- Military Nursing. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011. --- Military Personnel --- Military Medicine. --- Medicine, Military --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Nursing --- Military medicine --- Medicine --- Medicine, Naval --- Military hospitals --- Military hygiene --- War --- psychology. --- Medical aspects --- Relief of sick and wounded --- World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Personal narratives. --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- History --- Medicine / History of medicine --- HISTORY / Military / General. --- History of medicine. --- Psychological aspects. --- Medical aspects. --- Medicine and war --- War and medicine --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Doctors. --- Life-writing. --- Medical personnel. --- Nurses. --- Resilience. --- Trauma. --- War.

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