No Mans Land, Wendy Moore
No Mans Land, Wendy Moore
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No Man's Land
The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

Author: Wendy Moore

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 12 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 04/28/2020


Synopsis

The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.

A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war and the Spanish flu, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments.

In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of global war and pandemic when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.

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