No Time for Fear

No Time for Fear
Author: Diane Burke Fessler
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 1997-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1628952547

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No Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation—all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor. This unique oral-history collection makes available to readers an important counterpoint to the seemingly endless discussions of strategy, planning, and troop movement that often characterize discussions of the Second World War.

Nurses' Voices from the Second World War

Nurses' Voices from the Second World War
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
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For over 25 years the History of Nursing Network in Northern Ireland (HoN NI) has been collecting oral histories from nurses willing to share their professional work experience. Collectively, these provide a rich, first-hand archive of nurse training and professional development in Northern Ireland.

They Called Them Angels

They Called Them Angels
Author: Kathi Jackson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803276277

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With the insight and intimacy of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could have made more money as civilians, thousands chose to leave the security of home to care for the young men who went off to war. They were not saints but vibrant women whose performance changed both military and civilian nursing. Kathi Jackson's account follows army and navy nurses from the time they joined the military, through their active service, to their lives today. They Called Them Angels presents the stories of women who lived under extraordinary circumstances in an extraordinary time, women who even today bear emotional scars along with lasting pride.

Nurses' Voices from the Northern Ireland Troubles

Nurses' Voices from the Northern Ireland Troubles
Author: Margaret Graham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-09
Genre: Emergency nursing
ISBN: 9780957430877

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A collection of personal accounts from nurses who worked during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

And If I Perish

And If I Perish
Author: Evelyn Monahan
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307424782

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In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them. For more than half a century these women’s experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of reasearch and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war. From the North African and Italian Campaigns to the Liberation of France and the Conquest of Germany, U.S. Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the frontlines with grit, humor, and great heroism. A long overdue work of history, And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy.

Helmets and Lipstick

Helmets and Lipstick
Author: Ruth G. Haskell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1387127470

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Helmets and Lipstick is the first-hand account of Second Lieutenant Ruth Haskell, chronicling her time spent as a combat nurse with U.S. troops in North Africa during Operation Torch. First published at the height of the war in 1944, Haskell's memoir is a classic account of combat nursing in World War 2, an important addition to the literature of the war in North Africa and of the history of non-combatants in the Second World War.

Beyond the Call of Duty

Beyond the Call of Duty
Author: Judith Barger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781606351543

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"[This book offers an] in-depth account of the events leading up to the formation of the military flight nurse program, their training for duty, and the air evacuation missions in which they participated"--Dust jacket.

Veiled Warriors

Veiled Warriors
Author: Christine E. Hallett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198703694

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The true story of Allied nursing in the First World War, offering a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the Allied cause.

An Officer and a Lady

An Officer and a Lady
Author: Cynthia Toman
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774858168

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During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially created all-female officers' rank of the Canadian Armed Forces. They served in all three armed force branches and all the major theatres of war, yet nursing as a form of war work has long been under-explored. An Officer and a Lady fills that gap. Cynthia Toman analyzes how gender, war, and medical technology intersected to create a legitimate role for women in the masculine environment of the military and explores the incongruous expectations placed on military nurses as "officers and ladies."

Angel of Bataan

Angel of Bataan
Author: Walter Macdougall
Publisher: Down East Books
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 160893375X

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Alice Zwicker was the only service woman from Maine to be a prisoner of the enemy in either of the two World Wars. But there is more to the story than that. Across the nation, wherever one of the seventy-seven Angels of Bataan returned home, there was a hero’s welcome. Those Army and Navy nurses had shown what American women could do and be, even in times of defeat. This is Alice’s story: her growing up in a small Maine town, her commitment to the profession of nursing, and her immersion in World War II. There was Manila, Bataan, Corregidor, and then three long, hungry years when she was held prisoner by the Japanese. For Alice, the terrible legacy of war did not end with her liberation from internment camp, or even with her coming home. When victory finally arrived for Alice, it was achieved in her own soul.