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Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War
Laurie S. Stoff
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Description for Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War
A history of the women who served Russia as wartime nurses during the Great War, featuring heretofore untold and highly compelling stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversy. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; BK; HBWN; MBX; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
They are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversy—and because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold. Laurie Stoff’s pioneering work brings the wartime experiences of Russia’s “Sisters of Mercy” out of the shadows to show how these nurses of the Great War, far from merely binding wounds, provided vital services that put them squarely in traditionally “masculine” territory, both literally and figuratively.
While Russian nursing shared many features of women’s medical service in other nations, it was in some ways profoundly different. Like soldiers and ... Read more
They are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversy—and because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold. Laurie Stoff’s pioneering work brings the wartime experiences of Russia’s “Sisters of Mercy” out of the shadows to show how these nurses of the Great War, far from merely binding wounds, provided vital services that put them squarely in traditionally “masculine” territory, both literally and figuratively.
While Russian nursing shared many features of women’s medical service in other nations, it was in some ways profoundly different. Like soldiers and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
392
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700621255
SKU
V9780700621255
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About Laurie S. Stoff
Laurie S. Stoff is Senior Lecturer and Honors Faculty Fellow in Barrett, the Honors College, at Arizona State University, USA and the author of They Fought for the Motherland: Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution, also from Kansas.
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