War-Torn Exchanges
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3254-0 (ISBN)
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Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to serve as nursing sisters in the Great War. Over the next four years, the two cared for each other through sickness and health, air raids and bombings, unrelenting work and adventurous leaves.
War-Torn Exchanges offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of Canada’s First World War nurses – from the privations of Gallipoli to the heavy casualties of Passchendaele and beyond.
This carefully curated and contextualized collection of letters challenges the popular myth of nurses as wartime angels. Instead, Mildred and Laura’s letters are filled with the nurses’ fears and frustrations, humour and keen observations – revealing how they relied on friendship, wry wit, and professional ethics to carry on in the face of mismanagement, discrimination, illness, deprivation, and trauma.
Andrea McKenzie is an associate professor in the Writing Department and the Graduate Program in History at York University. Her publications on war narratives have been printed in Other Fronts, Other Wars? First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial; The Lion and the Unicorn; and the Canadian Journal of Communications. She also co-edited and introduced, with Benjamin Lefebvre, the restored text of L.M. Montgomery’s war novel, Rilla of Ingleside, and has published chapters about Montgomery’s works in The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Vol. 2, A Critical Heritage; Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations; and Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture.
Introduction: Friendship and War
1 Journeying to War
2 Lemnos: “Poor Souls” and “Pathetic Sights”
3 Alexandria and Cairo: Mosques and Minarets
4 Salonika: In the Shadow of Olympus
5 England: Officers and Honours
6 France: Trauma and Taking Charge
Conclusion and Epilogue
Appendix: Laura Holland’s Travel Diary, 1907
Bibliography; Notes; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.11.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 b&w photos, 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Vancouver |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7748-3254-1 / 0774832541 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-3254-0 / 9780774832540 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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