Author: Moira Butterfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749639457
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This lively black and white series aims to make history into an interesting read. Each title is the chatty personal diary of a teenager, set against the background of a specific historical time. The books include details of daily life, relations with family and friends, jokes and humorous events, doubts, hopes and dreams. The storyline of each book employs interesting historical facts designed to give an understanding of the period in line with the National Curriculum; the diary format supports the National Literacy Strategy. To add variety to the mixture there are extras: a recipe, shopping list, sketched map or the sort of ephemera, lists and notes that young people might add to their own private diaries. The black and white illustrations make characters and events come alive and add historical detail. History Diaries build on the success of accessible, humorous history in this format, but takes the genre in a new and appealing direction.
Author: Mildred A. MacGregor
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047203331X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War
Author: Helen Dore Boylston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: June Wandrey
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Contains ... unedited observations and thoughts recorded in ... diaries and letters home from October 1942 to October 1945.
Author: Dorothea Crewdson
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297869191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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The evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War, published for the first time. A rare insight into the great war for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE. In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Tréport in northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a diary. 'Who knows how long we shall really be out here? Seems a good chance from all reports of the campaigns being ended before winter but all is uncertain.' Dorothea would go on to witness and record some of the worst tragedy of the First World War at first hand, though somehow always maintaining her optimism, curiosity and high spirits throughout. The pages of her diaries sparkle with warmth and humour as she describes the day-to-day realities and frustrations of nursing near the frontline of the battlefields, or the pleasure of a beautiful sunset, or a trip 'joy-riding' in the French countryside on one of her precious days off. One day she might be gossiping about her fellow nurses, or confessing to writing her diary while on shift on the ward, or illustrating the scene of the tents collapsing around them on a windy night in one of her vivid sketches. In another entry she describes picking shells out of the beds on the ward after a terrifying air raid (winning a medal for her bravery in the process). Nearly a hundred years on, what shines out above all from the pages of these extraordinarily evocative diaries is a courageous, spirited, compassionate young woman, whose story is made all the more poignant by her tragically premature death at the end of the war just before she was due to return home.
Author: Ruth Cowen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857202243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This, the first in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, will tell a story that is rarely heard: the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First World War. Incredibly, Edith Appleton served in France for the whole of the conflict. Her bravery and dedication won her the Military OBE, the Royal Red Cross and the Belgian Queen Elizabeth medal among others. Her diary details with compassion all the horrors of the 'war to end wars', including the first use of poison gas and the terrible cost of battles such as Ypres, but she also records what life was like for nurses and how she spent her time off-duty. There are moments of humour amongst the tragedy, and even lyrical accounts of the natural beauty that still existed amidst all the destruction.
Author: Sue Reid
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407132954
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The Second World War is raging abroad when 18-year-old Kitty decides it's time to do her bit. So she joins the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) as a nurse, going to work in the military hospitals of southern England. Helping the injured soldiers on the wards, Kitty sees the grisly effects of war at close hand - notably the casualties of Dunkirk. But the move from her comfortable, safe home environment to the harsh world of a wartime hospital will teach her a great deal about life and relationships...
Author: A. World War 1. Nurse
Publisher: Diggory Press Limited
ISBN: 0951565575
Category : Military hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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A British Nurse's experiences working on the Belgian Front during the First World War
Author: Moira Butterfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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A fictional diary of a young trainee nurse working in a London hospital during the Second World War. As Britain goes to war, Jean Harris records in her diary how she copes with bandages and bedpans, falls in love, life on the home front and the horrors of the London Blitz. Includes factual information on the Second World War. Suggested level: primary.
Author: Clare Gass
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773528383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The diary of a nurse who served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in France during the First World War.
