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  • Sisters

    Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two

    by Barbara Mortimer ...
    On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany.Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses.Sisters features over 150 previously unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid, poignant and riveting stories ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • New Directions in Nursing History

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Susan McGann, Barbara Mortimer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship.Covering a range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this book draws on research from eleven different countries to address:the issues of professionalism within nursingthe social and ethical issues which are woven into the relationship between the nurse/midwife ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Don’T Be Shy, Nurse!

    by Kaye Caradoc ...
    Nurses today have very different lives and training from those who embarked upon this career 40 years ago. This is this is an account of the three years training of a nurse set in a London hospital in the 1960s. It is the story of one initially naive student nurse and her colleagues, as they progress from their first days as the junior girls, to the day when they eventually hold the letters of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Three Years In Starch.

    by Maud Harris ...
    A factual account of general nurse training in a large West Country hospital from 1959 to 1962. Documents the massive changes in the last few years, especially with the advent of the computer age.Full of stories that other medical and nursing professionals will relate to readily.Poignant,humourous,informative,a fast paced read to be enjoyed by everyone whether with or without a medical background. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dial 999!

    by Les Pringle ...
    This is a re-issue of Blue Nights and Long Nights ISBN 9780552158527.Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and 'flying' ladies - life as an ambulance driver in the 1970s was certainly varied ...At the age of twenty-three, Les Pringle decided to escape from office life, broaden his horizons and become an ambulance driver. Little did he realize how broad those horizons would turn out to be ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Call Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 1 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    'A delightful, well researched story that really does depict nursing and the living conditions in the East End at the end of the war' Lesley PearseLondon is putting itself back together and twenty-five-year-old Millie is at the forefront of the effort as she tends to the East End community around her.While she witnesses tragedy and brutality in her job, Millie also finds strength and kindness as ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Land Girls

    As war rages, can love survive? A heart-warming family saga about the women of war

    by Annie Wilkinson ...
    A heart-wrenching and nostalgic family saga from acclaimed author Annie Wilkinson. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Margaret DickinsonAS WAR RAGES, CAN LOVE SURVIVE?Hull, 1943**17-year-old Muriel Dearlove has weathered the Blitz unscathed, but with her sweetheart Bill away fighting and her friends conscripted into the WRENs and WAAF, life has become tedious for Muriel. So when an old friend ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Nurse's Courage

    a gripping story of love and duty set during the First World War

    by Maggie Holt ...
    If you love watching Call the Midwife or reading Dilly Court and Donna Douglas, you will love much-loved author Maggie Holt's warm-hearted, captivating and intensely moving wartime saga in which a young nurse's life is forever changed by war. Perfect to settle down with!WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT A NURSE'S COURAGE!'I found this book extremely difficult to put down' - 5 STARS'T... ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Nightingales on Call

    (Nightingales 4)

    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series Book 4 - Nightingales
    From the author of The Nightingale Girls, The Nightingale Sisters and The Nightingale Nurses – perfect for fans of Call the Midwife1937 sees new challenges for the trainee nursesDora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children’s ward for the final three months of their training. The two nurses couldn’t seem more different, but they may have more in common than they think, as each hides a ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Bundles of Joy

    Two Thousand Miracles. One Unstoppable Manchester Midwife

    by Linda Fairley ...
    The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Linda Fairley.‘No matter how many babies I deliver, each and every one is a miracle, connecting me to the world like nothing else, reminding me that we are all equal in the beginning, and in the end. It’s a great leveller, childbirth.’It’s January 1972 and times have changed since Linda first stepped onto a maternity ward four years earlier. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Unmarried Mother

    by Sheila Tofield ...
    Sheila Tofield tells her moving true story about being a single mother in 1950s Britain, in The Unmarried Mother.'A searing, honest testimony' Lesley PearseSheila grew up in Rotherham, the daughter of an uncaring mother who made her believe she was useless, stupid and - most painfully of all - unlovable. As a young woman, her worst childhood fears were confirmed when her fiancé broke off their ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Christmas With Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 3 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    A wonderfully moving Christmas midwife story from the author of Call Nurse Millie.Christmas is approaching - but for Nurse Millie and Nurse Annie babies are still being born, and in the East End of London, new mothers still need all the care and support they can give.Vividly summing up all the friendship of a close-knit community - both for the midwives and for the families - CHRISTMAS WITH NURSE ... Read more

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