A nurse's war : a diary of hope and heartache on the Home Front
Johnstone, Kathleen2022
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In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. 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. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944. She muses on being working class, wartime austerity, and her anxiety about examinations. Here too are dances, Americans and a POW boyfriend in Germany. Kathleen's observations are witty, wry and astute - but above all relatable, even today.
Main title:
A nurse's war : a diary of hope and heartache on the Home Front / edited by Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson.
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Imprint:
Manchester : HarperNorth, 2022.
Collation:
xvii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780008519155 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.547542940.5475940.54754276940.547542762092940.547 JOHNB JOHB JOH JOHB
Language:
English
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BRN:
2288551
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