'A very private diary' : a nurse in wartime
Morris, Mary, 1921-19772015
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'The real war started for me today'. So begins the diary of 18-year-old Mary Mulry, a young Irish nurse, newly arrived in London in 1940. Over the next seven years she witnesses many of the pivotal events of the war at first hand. In London during the Blitz she sees a young woman die after a botched abortion, narrowly escapes from the bombing of the Alexandra Hotel, and nurses critically ill children during bombing raids in Woolwich. In Normandy in 1944, arriving on the heels of the D-Day invasion, she nurses Allied soldiers and German prisoners of war. In war-torn Belgium, she records harrowing stories of casualties from the Battle of Arnhem. In these extraordinary diaries we see a young woman coming of age, falling in and out of love several times over.
Main title:
'A very private diary' : a nurse in wartime / Mary Morris ; edited by Carol Acton.
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.
Collation:
xvi, 300 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781780227382 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.547541940.547541092B
Local class:
940.547541092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1806806
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