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

Moore, Wendy, 1952- author.

Book 2021

"In September 1914, a month after the outbreak of the First World War, two British doctors, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, set out for Paris. There, they built a makeshift hospital in Claridge's, the luxury hotel, and treated hundreds of casualties carted in from France's battlefields. Until this war called men to the front, female doctors had been restricted to treating only women and children. But even skeptical army officials who vi...

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