Christine E. Hallett

Broschiertes Buch

Nurses of Passchendaele

Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918

Beschreibung

Nurses of Passchendaele faithfully recounts the experiences of nurses working behind the Ypres Salient in one of the most intense and prolonged casualty evacuation processes in the history of modern warfare.

Autor

Christine Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the University of Manchester. She is Chair of the UK Association for the History of Nursing and President of the European Association for the History of Nursing, and holds Fellowships of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society for the Arts. She is a trained nurse, and has PhDs in both Nursing and History. She practised as a nurse in the North of England from 1985 to 1989, before moving into teaching and research. Her most recent work has focussed on the nurses of the First World War, and among her many publications are three single-authored books: Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War (Manchester University Press, 2009); Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2014); and Nurse Writers of the Great War (Manchester University Press, 2016).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781526702883
• ISBN-10: 1526702886
• Artikelnr.: 47720896