The Roses of No Man's Land - Softcover

Macdonald, Lyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333366476 ISBN 13: 9780333366479

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 1984

Synopsis

'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion; in this book they get a chance to tell their own stories. In leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another war, a war against agony and death, as men lay suffering from the pain of unimaginable wounds or diseases we can now cure almost instantly.It was here that young doctors frantically forged new medical techniques - of blood transfusion, dentistry, psychiatry and plastic surgery - in the attempt to save soldiers shattered in body or spirit. And it was here that women achieved a quiet but permanent revolution, by proving beyond question they could do anything. All this is superbly captured in "The Roses of No Man's Land", a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, yet also of endurance and supreme courage.

About this title

About the Author

Lyn Macdonald is one of the most highly regarded historians of the First World War. Her books tell the men's stories in their own words and cast a unique light on the experiences of the ordinary 'Tommy'. The Roses of No Man's Land, Somme and They Called it Passchendaele have been recently reissued by Penguin. She lives near Cambridge.

Review

The tale is allowed to tell itself without any frontal assault on the emotions, and is all the more stirring thereby * Observer *

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333366476
• ISBN 13: 9780333366479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318