Könyv V.A.Ds Thekla Bowser

V.A.Ds

Accounts of the Voluntary Aid Detachment During the First World War 1914-18-A Green Tent in Flanders by Maud Mortimer, A V.A.D. in France by Olive Dent & Britain's Civilian Volunteers by Thekla Bowser

Szerző: Thekla Bowser
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Leonaur Ltd
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
14 700 Ft
Three accounts of the brave women volunteers of the V.A.Ds during the Great War...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2014
oldal
460
EAN
9781782823094
ISBN
9781782823094
Enbook ID
08843268
Kiadó
Súly
717
Méretek
140 x 216 x 30

Teljes leírás

Three accounts of the brave women volunteers of the V.A.Ds during the Great War Although the wars of the later 19th century, such as the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, offered insights into what warfare would become as the industrial age developed, nothing could prepare anyone for the global conflict that became the First World War. Here was a lethal combination of warring nations, whose troops were armed with the most sophisticated weapons that technology could devise, each with the means of mass production to manufacture and deliver them. For the first time it was possible to wage war on a grand scale on land, in the air and beneath and upon the oceans. This was a war where millions of men took part in battle and, in consequence, stripped the production and support services workforces from their home countries. Women, already impatient for political reform, stepped forward to make a vital contribution to the war effort and in so doing changed their status in western society forever. There were many volunteer organisations who were relied upon to support the fighting troops, including the Scottish Women's Hospitals, the F.A.N.Ys, the Y.M.C.A and those who are the subject of this book-the V.A.Ds-the Voluntary Aid Detachments. Three quarters of V.A.Ds were women and girls and they became ambulance drivers, mechanics, cooks, clerks and learned trades which were normally the province of men. But it is in their role as nurses during the conflict for which they are especially remembered. The V.A.Ds included both trained and untrained nurses who worked principally under the direction of the Red Cross and the Order of St. John. This special Leonaur book about the V.A.Ds, published to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, contains three essential and riveting first-hand acounts by those who served, and provides invaluable insights into the developing role of women during those years of crisis. Recommended. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

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