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The Chapters In This Volume Focus On The Thousands Of Women From The Allied Nations Who Worked As Nurses During The First World War... They Consistently Suggest That A Serious Consideration Of A Broad Corpus Of The Written Texts Produced By Nurses From Different Allied Nations Leads Us, Necessarily, To Revise Our Understanding Of The First World War, Offering Important New (and, Inevitably, Gendered) Perspectives On The Experiences And Legacies Of War--introd. Introduction: New Perspectives On First World War Nursing / Christine E. Hallett And Alison S. Fell -- Making Sister Julie: The Origin Of First World War French Nursing Heroines In Franco-prussian War Stories / Margaret H. Darrow -- Beacons Of Britishness: British Nurses And Female Doctors As Prisoners Of War / Angela K. Smith -- I Begin To Feel As A Normal Being Should, In Spite Of The Blood And Anguish In Which I Move: American Women's First World War Nursing Memoirs / Jane Potter -- All For The Boys: The Nurse-patient Relationship Of Australian Army Nurses In The First World War / Kirsty Harris -- Emotional Nursing: Involvement, Engagement And Detachment In The Writings Of First World War Nurses And Vads / Christine E. Hallett -- A Sister's War: The Diaries Of Alice Slythe / Janet S. K. Watson -- Negotiating Injury And Masculinity In First World War Nurses' Writing / Carol Acton -- The Theater Of Pain: Observing Mary Borden In The Forbidden Zone / Hazel Hutchison -- Cubist Vision In Nursing Accounts / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Afterword: Remembering The First World War Nurse In Britain And France / Alison S. Fell. Edited By Alison S. Fell And Christine E. Hallett. Simultaneously Published In The Uk--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.