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Angels of Mercy Nurses on the Western Front

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July 2013 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.

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, staffed totally by women, in an abandoned French abbey to treat the soldiers injured on the Western Front. Told largely through letters home and diaries, this book throws light on wartime conditions and the cause of women's suffrage.

 

A 'Piece of Passion' from the publisher...

‘I don’t think it’s too much to say that in writing Angels of Mercy the late Dr Eileen Crofton rescued an inspiring episode in history – women’s history, military history and Scottish history – which could have easily been forgotten. The story of the heroic female doctors who set up a military hospital in the old abbey of Royaumont in northern France during the darkest days of the First World War is worthy of a novel, and all the more inspiring and moving for being true.’ – Andrew Simmons, Andrew Simmons, Managing Editor, Birlinn

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