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Sisters of the Somme

Penny Starns
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True stories from a first world war field hospital
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780750961622
  • Dimensions: 129 x 192mm
  • Publication Date: 02 May 2016
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some responding to a vocational or religious calling, others following a sweetheart to the front, and some carried away on the jingoistic patriotism that gripped the nation in 1914. Despite their training, these young women were ill-prepared for the anguished cries of the wounded and the stench of gangrene and trench foot awaiting them at the Somme. Isolated from friends and family, most discovered an inner strength, forging new and close relationships with each other and establishing a camaraderie that was to last through the war and beyond. Based on the previously unpublished true stories of its nurses and medical staff, this book is a heart-warming account of the joys and sorrows of life in an extraordinary Somme field hospital.
About Penny Starns
PENNY STARNS was awarded her Doctorate in History at the University of Bristol and specialises in the History of the Second World War. She has researched and taught at Cambridge, London and Bristol universities, and has written history programmes for BBC Radio 4, for which she was awarded the Sony Gold Award for the best written and researched radio programme series. In 2025, she was given the honour of speaking at an English Heritage unveiling ceremony for Odette's Blue Plaque. Her other books include Odette and Nurses at War.

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