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Author Coroban, Costel, author

Title The Great War and Scottish nurses' diaries : "a world of distant rumbling" / by Costel Coroban
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019

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Contents Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names
Summary 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-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 26, 2019)
Subject Scottish Women's Hospitals (Organization)
SUBJECT Scottish Women's Hospitals (Organization) fast
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals -- Romania
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
War diaries.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Hospitals
War diaries
Romania
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781527531758
1527531759