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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headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses.Sisters features over 150 previously unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing.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

    $17.89 USD

  • 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

    $65.99 USD

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  • Christmas With Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 3 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    A wonderfully moving Christmas midwife story from the author of Call Nurse Millie.Christmas is approaching - but for Nurse Millie and Nurse Annie babies are still being born, and in the East End of London, new mothers still need all the care and support they can give.Vividly summing up all the friendship of a close-knit community - both for the midwives and for the families - CHRISTMAS WITH NURSE ... Read more

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  • Blue Above the Chimneys

    by Christine Marion Fraser ...
    Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversityBorn during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child.Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning to avoid her hardworking, hard-drinking one-eyed father, making a menace of herself in the streets along with the other urchins, Christine lived ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • It Won't Hurt a Bit

    Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane's journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Fetch Nurse Connie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 4 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    London, 1945 and as the end of the war is declared and the troops start returning home, the nurses of the East End are joining in the celebrations.For Nurse Connie Byrne the end of the war signals the beginning of a new chapter and as the revelries go on around the city, Connie's mind is on another celebration that she'll be able to arrange - the wedding to her sweetheart, Charlie, set to take ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

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  • A Ration Book Daughter

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 5 - East End Ration Book
    Not even the Blitz can shake a mother's love. Cathy was a happy, blushing bride when Britain went to war with Germany three years ago. But her youthful dreams were crushed by her violent husband Stanley's involvement with the fascist black-shirts, and even when he's conscripted to fight she knows it's only a brief respite - divorce is not an option. Cathy, a true Brogan daughter, stays strong for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Nightingale Nurses

    (Nightingales 3)

    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series Book 3 - Nightingales
    'Pay attention please, nurses. The next six months will be the most important of your lives'It's the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital.Helen is at a crossroads in her life as she battles with her domineering mother over both her love life and her future career.Dora can't stop loving Nick, who is married to her best friend, Ruby. But Ruby is hiding a dark ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • District Nurse on Call

    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series series Steeple Street Series
    *****West Yorkshire, 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street, Agnes Sheridan is looking forward to making her mark as Bowden's first district nurse, confident she can make a difference in the locals’ lives.But when Agnes arrives, she’s treated with suspicion, labelled just another servant of the wealthy mine owners. The locals would much rather place their trust in the resident ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

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  • A Nightingale Christmas Carol

    (Nightingales 8)

    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series Book 8 - Nightingales
    All that Dora Riley wants is her husband home safe for Christmas…The Nightingale Hospital, London, 1944: With her husband Nick away fighting, Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning and is put in charge of a ward full of German prisoners of war. Can she find it in her heart to care for her enemies?Fellow nurse Kitty thinks she might be falling for a German soldier, whilst Dora’s old friend ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Strong Hand to Hold

    by Anne Bennett ...
    A heartbreaking tale of love and loss in a time of war, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves.Jenny O’Leary is devastated one morning in 1940 when she receives a telegram giving her the dreadful news that one of her brothers has been killed in action. Grief threatens to engulf her, but as an ARP warden, tending to Birmingham’s injured after the nightly raids, she is well-used to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Until You Come Home

    by Ellie Dean ...
    Series Book 12 - The Cliffehaven Series
    THE TWELFTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN‘We’ll just have to carry on in the belief that the end of the war is finally in sight'It is 1944 and Anne Black is making the best of a new life in Somerset, but bringing up her daughters so far from their father, her mother Peggy and their real home of Cliffehaven isn’t easy. The safety of Somerset makes separation ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

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