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Author Starns, Penny, author.

Title Blitz Hospital : True Stories of Nursing in Wartime London / Penny Starns.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
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Summary As the German Luftwaffe subjected Britain's major cities and ports to unremitting waves of aerial bombardment, doctors, nurses, and first aiders constantly risked their lives to give urgent treatment to the severely wounded. Over 80,000 casualties were sustained during this period and city hospitals, especially in London, were working under extreme conditions. The diaries of London nurses reveal that they were confronted by a vast array of appalling injuries on a daily and nightly basis. This book follows the fortunes of three major London hospitals as they struggled to cope with mounting casualties: The Royal London Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital, and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Together, through previously unpublished wartime diaries, letters, and reports of medical and nursing staff, they highlight the many human stories of tremendous courage and hope that lived and breathed within the corridors, theaters, and wards of London's hospitals during the Blitz.
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Subject Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (London, England) -- History -- 20th century.
Royal London Hospital -- History -- 20th century.
St. Thomas' Hospital (London, England) -- History -- 20th century.
Nurses -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Hospitals -- England -- London.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- England -- London.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
Great Britain -- History -- Bombardment, 1944-1945.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Starns, Penny. Blitz hospital Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2018. 0750982497 (MiAaPQ)EBC5733133
Standard No. 9780750990318
ISBN 9780750990318 (epub)
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