Christine Hallett on the myths surrounding the nurses of the First World War
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2014 · Education
Author Christine Hallett discusses the unknown stories of nurses working on the ‘second battlefield’ of the First World War, and explains why it is difficult to write about them without mythologizing. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198703693.do
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