The Great War and Scottish nurses' diaries : "a world of distant rumbling" /

Coroban, Costel,

The Great War and Scottish nurses' diaries : "a world of distant rumbling" / by Costel Coroban. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names

This book analyses the representations of the different instances of war in the letters and diaries of the nurses and doctors of the Scottish Women's Hospitals who worked in Romania during the Great War. These nurses detailed their experiences into journals through literary diegesis that included minute observations on their work, surroundings, and different developments of the front, as well as their own interpretations of, and impressions on, their work and the war's destructive character. Generally, the approaches to the Great War by women who witnessed and lived it have either been gender-



9781527531758


Scottish Women's Hospitals (Organization)


World War, 1914-1918--Hospitals--Romania.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.
War diaries.


Electronic Books.

D629 / .G743 2019