A Nurses War: A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front Malcolmson Patricia
A Nurses War: A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front Malcolmson Patricia The compelling true story of one young nurse's heroism, heartache and happiness in wartime.The second world war could…
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A Nurses War: A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front Malcolmson Patricia
The compelling true story of one young nurse's heroism, heartache and happiness in wartime.The second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. For the next three years she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home.Kathleen's days were never the same. Women like Kathleen Johnstone.This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain's 'Greatest Generation' brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire.In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary.
She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and