Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front - Hardcover

Atkinson, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605980943 ISBN 13: 9781605980942

Publisher: Pegasus Books, 2010

Synopsis

In 1914, they roared off to London 'to do their bit, ' and within a month they were in the thick of things in Belgium driving ambulances to distant military hospitals. Frustrated by the number of men dying of shock in the back of their vehicles, they set up their own first-aid post on the front line in the village of Pervyse, near Ypres, risking their lives working under sniper fire and heavy bombardment for months at a time. As news of their courage and expertise spread, the 'Angels of Pervyse' became celebrities, visited by journalists and photographers as well as royals and VIPs. glamorous and influential, they were having the time of their lives, and for four years Elsie and Mairi and stayed in Pervyse until they were nearly killed by arsenic gas in the spring of 1918. But returning home and adjusting to peacetime life--and the role of women in British society--was to prove more challenging than even the war itself.

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Review:

It's a lost, antique, opaque England that Diane Atkinson evokes here--fascinating.

Book Description:

The extraordinary and moving story of two women whose courage and charisma made them the most famous women in the First World War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1605980943
• ISBN 13: 9781605980942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280