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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean on May 03, 2020

This is the story of the struggle by British physicians/surgeons and nurses for the right to an education/training in the field of medicine and for the right to practice their profession. Slowly they got to the point they were allow to care for women and children, but forbitten to treat men. World W......more

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship on February 08, 2021

3.5 stars This book about an entirely female-run hospital during WWI reminds me strongly of A Woman of No Importance and Ashley's War: all three are highly readable books about impressive women and their wartime contributions, people and stories I’m glad to have learned more about. All three also fee......more

Goodreads review by Cassidy on May 30, 2020

Interesting story about some very heroic, trailblazing women, but it often felt repetitive with extremely similar stories being reiterated many times throughout the book.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on April 10, 2021

One for the keeper shelf. A really well-told history, of women in medicine, of health care in World War I, of doctors and patients, and of the home front in Britain as well.......more

Quotes

"Meticulously researched, written with élan and wit, Moore's account comes at just the right time... No Man's Land reminds us that people can rise to an occasion, that the biggest advances -- for medicine, for humanity -- can come during the toughest times, as a result of the toughest times. It reminds us that great courage and great ingenuity are possible even when the world feels very dark."—New York Times

"An absorbing and powerful narrative of how two determined women used the crisis of war to create an opportunity to accomplish goals that they couldn't achieve in peacetime.... Ms. Moore has an eye for detail that brings her story to life."—Wall Street Journal

"Fascinating, carefully researched... Wendy Moore vividly depicts the convoys of seriously wounded soldiers arriving straight from the battlefields in France in the hospital's courtyard in the middle of the night... Moore is superb at describing the medical advances that resulted in seven research papers by Endell Street doctors being published in The Lancet, among the first ever by women."—Guardian

"Fascinating"—Times (UK)

"Rarely is a book so important, so timely. Medical journalist and author Moore has written a masterpiece... an unmissable, thrilling read."—London Evening Standard

"Drawing on rich archival material, Moore crafts a compelling history of the challenges faced by women doctors in the early years of the last century... An absorbing history of courage."—Kirkus Reviews

"Crisp, novelistic... Moore narrates with verve and precision."—Publishers Weekly

"No Man's Land is a story of feminist aspirations, bureaucratic hurdles overcome, medical innovation, and unexpected freedoms created in the turbulence of war. It is an important and well written addition to the growing body of forgotten women's history."—Shelf Awareness

"If you're fascinated by today's miracle medicine, this one's for you. This true tale details two pioneering doctors who transformed modern medicine while breaking societal norms during World War I."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Wendy Moore's skill as a writer delivers the story of these women and the history of the war with exceptional power, laying out a compelling combination of casualty statistics and individual human stories."—New York Journal of Books

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