No man's land : the trailblazing women who ran Britain's most extraordinary military hospital during World War I

Moore, Wendy, 1952- author.

Book 2020

"The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors...

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