Women In The War Zone Hospital Services in the First World War
Date of publication: April 2009 Publisher: The History Press In
our collective memory, the First World War is dominated by men.
The sailors, soldiers, airmen and politicians about whom
histories are written were male, and the first half of the
twentieth century was still a time when a woman's place was
thought to be in the home. It was not until the Second World War
that women would start to play a major role both in the armed
forces and in the factories and the fields. Yet there were some
women who were able to contribute to the war effort between 1914
and 1918, mostly as doctors and nurses. In Women in the War
Zone, Anne Powell has selected extracts from first-hand accounts
of the experiences of those female medical personnel who served
abroad during the First World War. Covering both the Western and
the Eastern Fronts, from Petrograd to Basra and from Antwerp to
the Dardanelles, they include nursing casualties from the Battle
of Ypres, a young