The Call and the Answer: A First-Hand Account of Volunteer Aid Workers in the First World War - Softcover

Binyon, Laurence

 
9780993331121: The Call and the Answer: A First-Hand Account of Volunteer Aid Workers in the First World War

Synopsis

At the height of the war in 1917, Laurence Binyon spent a month touring Red Cross hospitals and field canteens on the Western Front, talking to the men and women who were serving as volunteer nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, canteen workers and medical orderlies. This is his account of that extraordinary journey and their remarkable heroism.

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About the Author

Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) was a celebrated poet who volunteered as a medical orderly at a military hospital for French soldiers near Verdun during World War I.

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