TY - BOOK AU - Wood,Tracey Enerson TI - The war nurse: a novel SN - 9781492698166 AV - PS3623.O6455 W37 2021 U1 - LP F WOO PY - 2021/// PB - Thorndike Press KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Medical care KW - France KW - Fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging-and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France, while the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic overwhelms medical resources. Julia must confront an unthinkable choice-to challenge her profession and risk her hard-won career, or to let the people she loves die in her arms"-- ER -