The Forbidden Zone : A Nurse's Impressions of the First World War. Hesperus Modern Voices
(2023)
By:
Borden, Mary
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Hesperus Press, 2023
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781843919964 MWT16203351, 1843919966 16203351
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Mary Borden worked for four years in an evacuation hospital unit following the front lines up and down the European theater of the First World War. This beautifully written book, to be read alongside the likes of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, is a collection of her memories and impressions of that experience. Describing the men as they march into battle, engaging imaginatively with the stories of individual soldiers, and recounting procedures at the field hospital, the author offers a perspective on the war that is both powerful and intimate
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