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Title: A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: World War I Nurse, author
Subjects: World War I Nurse Nurses Field Hospitals World War I
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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A WAR NURSEbDIARY High courage, deep sympathy with-out sentimentality, and an all-savingsense of humor amid dreadfuland depressing conditions, are thesalient features of this little book.The author, who preserves heranonymity, has been over the top inthe fullest sense. She has faced bomb-ardments and aerial raids; she hascalmly removed her charges underfire; she has tended the woundedand dying amid scenes of carnageand confusion, and she has createdorder and comfort where but a shorttime before all was confusion anddiscomfort. And all the while shemarvels at the uncomplaining fort-itude of others, never counting herown! Many unusual experienceshave befallen this war nurse andshe writes of them all in a grip-ping, vivid fashion. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO • DALLASATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON • BOMBAY - CALCUTTAMELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO
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A WAR NURSES DIARY • M SKETCHES FROM A BELGIANFIELD HOSPITAL THE MACMILLAN COMPANY1918 All rights reserved p OOPTBIGHT, 1918 By THE MACMILIiAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published, February, 1918 CONTENTS PART I PAGE I The Start 3 Joining Up—The Personnel—Folkestone—Ostende—Journey to Antwerp—Welcome. II Antwerp 9 The Grammar School—Settling In—The Rush ofWounded—Kind Neighbours—Hard Work—Ma-lines—The Fortifications—Winston Churchill—Ru-mours—Ragtime—The Cafes. Ill The Siege 18 Fall of Walaem—The Water Supply—The LastBoat—Twenty-Four Hours Notice—Midnight—Re-moval—In the Cellars—Next Morning—The Faith-ful Cook—The Tommies—The Gas Fails—LondonBuses—The First Convoy—Card-Houses—Pet Dogs—Bombe—Howitzers. IV The Retreat 28 More Buses—Packing in the Patients—The Pas-sengers—Down the Valley of Flames—The Wait atthe Bridge;—The Highway of Sorrow—St. Nicolas—The Warning—The Track in the Dunes—TheConstant Q01110260R.nlm.nih.gov

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