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  • Sisters

    Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two

    by Barbara Mortimer ...
    On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany.Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses.Sisters features over 150 previously unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid, poignant and riveting stories ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hollywood's Frontier Captives

    Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film

    by Barbara A. Mortimer ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    The captivity narrative, the earliest genre of American popular literature, continues to be of cultural significance in late 20th-century Hollywood. Many popular films of the last four decades incorporate the most common elements of the captivity narrative tradition, including a politically contested frontier setting and a plot involving innocent, family-oriented white Americans held captive by ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • New Directions in Nursing History

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Susan McGann, Barbara Mortimer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship.Covering a range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this book draws on research from eleven different countries to address:the issues of professionalism within nursingthe social and ethical issues which are woven into the relationship between the nurse/midwife ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Don’T Be Shy, Nurse!

    by Kaye Caradoc ...
    Nurses today have very different lives and training from those who embarked upon this career 40 years ago. This is this is an account of the three years training of a nurse set in a London hospital in the 1960s. It is the story of one initially naive student nurse and her colleagues, as they progress from their first days as the junior girls, to the day when they eventually hold the letters of ... Read more

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  • Easter With Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 5 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    'Charming and full of detail about the work of a nurse in 1940s London, you will ride emotional highs and lows with each new birth and death. Beautifully written with some sharp dialogue' The Lady on Call Nurse MillieA charming and cheerful Easter story from the author of Call Nurse Millie.Spring is in the air for the nurses of Munroe House and as Easter approaches, Nurse Millie is playing ... Read more

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  • Dial 999!

    by Les Pringle ...
    This is a re-issue of Blue Nights and Long Nights ISBN 9780552158527.Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and 'flying' ladies - life as an ambulance driver in the 1970s was certainly varied ...At the age of twenty-three, Les Pringle decided to escape from office life, broaden his horizons and become an ambulance driver. Little did he realize how broad those horizons would turn out to be ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Call Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 1 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    'A delightful, well researched story that really does depict nursing and the living conditions in the East End at the end of the war' Lesley PearseLondon is putting itself back together and twenty-five-year-old Millie is at the forefront of the effort as she tends to the East End community around her.While she witnesses tragedy and brutality in her job, Millie also finds strength and kindness as ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • District Nurse

    by Patricia Jordan ...
    In the bestselling tradition of Call the Midwife, an honest and moving account of working as a district nurse in 1950s England.Born in Belfast, Patricia Jordan left for England to train as a nurse in the 1940s and DISTRICT NURSE is her moving and humorous account of life as a visiting nurse in a small English town. She leaves behind a close-knit family and a failed romance in Ireland to begin ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • All Change for Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 2 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    'A delightful, well researched story that really does depict nursing and the living conditions in the East End at the end of the war' Lesley Pearse on Call Nurse MillieLondon, 1948 and the nurses of the East End are getting ready for an eventful time ahead...Millie is settling into married life with her husband, MP Jim Smith, and is trying to balance her duties as a wife with her nursing duties to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Land Girls

    As war rages, can love survive? A heart-warming family saga about the women of war

    by Annie Wilkinson ...
    A heart-wrenching and nostalgic family saga from acclaimed author Annie Wilkinson. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Margaret DickinsonAS WAR RAGES, CAN LOVE SURVIVE?Hull, 1943**17-year-old Muriel Dearlove has weathered the Blitz unscathed, but with her sweetheart Bill away fighting and her friends conscripted into the WRENs and WAAF, life has become tedious for Muriel. So when an old friend ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Nightingales on Call

    (Nightingales 4)

    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series Book 4 - Nightingales
    From the author of The Nightingale Girls, The Nightingale Sisters and The Nightingale Nurses – perfect for fans of Call the Midwife1937 sees new challenges for the trainee nursesDora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children’s ward for the final three months of their training. The two nurses couldn’t seem more different, but they may have more in common than they think, as each hides a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Bundles of Joy

    Two Thousand Miracles. One Unstoppable Manchester Midwife

    by Linda Fairley ...
    The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Linda Fairley.‘No matter how many babies I deliver, each and every one is a miracle, connecting me to the world like nothing else, reminding me that we are all equal in the beginning, and in the end. It’s a great leveller, childbirth.’It’s January 1972 and times have changed since Linda first stepped onto a maternity ward four years earlier. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD