The roses of no man's land

摘要: Lyn Macdonald's "The Roses of No Man's Land" is a compelling look at the women who risked their lives on Western Front. 'On face it,' writes Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for job than these gently nurtured girls walked straight out Edwardian drawing rooms into manifest horrors First World War ...' Yet volunteer nurses rose magnificently to occasion. In leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another war, war against agony death, as men lay suffering from pain unimaginable wounds or diseases we can now cure almost instantly. It was here that young doctors frantically forged new medical techniques - blood transfusion, dentistry, psychiatry plastic surgery in attempt save soldiers shattered body spirit. And it achieved quiet but permanent revolution, by proving beyond question do anything. All this superbly captured Land", panorama hardship, disillusion despair, yet also endurance supreme courage. "Lyn Macdonald wrirtes splendidly touchingly work humanitarian battle Front". ("Sunday Telegraph"). Over past twenty years has established popular reputation an author historian War. Her books are based accounts eyewitnesses survivors, told own words, cast unique light Most published Penguin.