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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Condition is Very Good. Pages are clean and tight. Blue covers have moderate wear. 1959 softcover. 202 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. B00K: FiNe/ 1993 World Wide Shipping, AVAILABLE. (illustrator). B00K: FiNe/ $30.12 CAT Question & Answer Reference Guide. UpDated 7/93. NATIONAL COUNCIL of STATE BOARDS of NURSING, Inc. NATIONAL COUNCIL of STATE BOARDS of NURSING, Inc. 1993 Black Metal Spiral Binder Spine With No Title, Soft B0K: Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear, 36 Numbered Pages That Appear To Be Lightly Read And Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, Are In Fine/ Condition, Printed On Off White Paper. Description Applies To This BooK Only. Top Corner Of Front Cover Has Original Seller's Price Sticker. This BooK Is, Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. World Wide Shipping, AVAILABLE.

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159pp., 8vo. In good condition, with light signs of age and wear, in a card folder with 'Best Copies | A | Nurse Phipps | War Diaries | (1939-45)' in autograph on front. Each page of the typescript is on one side of a separate leaf. Divided into six stapled sections (each with its own manuscript title-page not included in pagination), as follows: '"The Emergency" and "Phoney War"' [22 August 1939 to 31 May 1940], 28pp.; '"Beechwood 1940" Dunkirk & Battle of Britain' [17 May to 5 October 1940], 31pp.; 'Blitz (1940)' [6 October to 31 December 1940], 23pp.; '"Beechwood & Blitz" [1 January to 31 October 1941], 32pp.; 'Central Hospital in Battledress' [31 October 1941 to 31 March 1942], 18pp.; 'Bradford Royal Infirmary & Basingstoke & Trip to Devon (section)' [May 1943 to 2 August 1943], 27pp. Marginal autograph notes throughout (especially earlier sections), with one of these initialled 'K ', presumably indicating a change of surname through marriage. A missing section, dating from between April 1942 and April 1943, is referred to in an autograph note at the end of the fifth section: 'There is a gap here for "Golden Meadows" | I will send it later'. The transcriptions of the letters and diaries in the typescript were made in the early nineteen-seventies: the third section is preceded by a typewritten 'Note 1970', and the text of the second section contains a passage said to be 'appended in 1973'. The Imperial War Museum possesses a copy of the present typescript, including two missing parts (April 1942 to April 1943, and August 1943 to the end of the war). An extract was published in Richard Aldrich's 'Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe and the Middle East' (Random House, 2014). The author comes from a comfortable middle-class background (her mother's London house is in the exclusive Eaton Square, and she is clearly a relation of the Earl of Mulgrave and Marquess of Normanby), and her account of her wartime experiences is vivid, entertaining, percipient and unusually well-written. Of particular interest are her descriptions of the conditions of her patients. She begins on the eve of the war - having recently returned from a short time living in Canada - criticising Chamberlain and hoping for service overseas. She begins as a Red Cross nurse at a First Aid Post in Westminster, and as a probationer nurse at the Preliminary Training School for Nurses at University College Hospital (August 1939 - May 1940). She then moves to the Emergency Medical Service Hospital Ashridge, Hertfordshire (May 1940 - October 1941), and again at University College Hospital (October 1941 - March 1942). (The account should continue here, according to the IWM entry on its copy, with Phipps's dismissal, and subsequent nervous breakdown, followed by time as warden of a Women's Land Army Hostel near Baldock, Hertfordshire.) The present copy ends with an account of Phipps's time at Bradford Royal Infirmary, including two of her poems, the second titled 'Desert Victory'. (After which the text should end, again according to the entry on the IMW copy, with Phipps's participation in the 'Maple Leaf' lecture tour of Devon, speaking about Canada, and posts as an Assistant Nurse at First Aid Posts in factories in Staffordshire and Yorkshire, and at Driffield EMS Hospital, Yorkshire.) A few examples indicate the tone of the diary. A 'Late Note Extra. discovered among papers, and undated', begins: 'Yesterday I arrived at Mulgrave, beautiful weather, lovely food! Was astounded to see in the Library sitting in the fireplace, one of the new incendiary bombs, obviously unexploded. When I asked mother how it got there she said it was her very special souvenir of a recent raid. She obviously had no idea how dangerous such things can nbe, and when I said I'd hand it in for her, she got quite angry. So I bided my time, and when nobody was around picked it up gingerly and carried it somewhat nervously I will admit to the village. At the door of the Vicarag.