num_pages: 175
description: The World Wars of the 20th century caused massive upheavals all over the world. Millions of men from every corner of the globe enlisted in the armed forces to fight while women took the places of men in the workforce at home. Eighty years later we still see photographs of Rosie the Riveter and women welding bombers for the Air Force.What history often overlooks however are the extraordinary true-life stories of the brave women from the US UK Canada Australia and New Zealand who enlisted in the Allied forces in their thousands to serve as nurses behind the front lines at great danger to themselves.And while men shot to kill in the North African European and the Pacific theaters of war nurses served right behind them armed with tools of healing rather than warfare.Its hard to imagine today what life was like during the greatest conflict in recent history but these untold true stories of women heroes of WWII paint a vivid picture of life as a military nursefrom makeshift field hospitals in France to bombed-out station hospitals in Belgium to journeys fraught with danger on ambulance trains air ambulances and hospital ships.Inside Nightingales Bluebirds &amp; Angels of True Stories of the Courage and Heroism of Nurses on the Front Line in WWII youll learn the true stories of nurses in the Second World War The stories of these brave women are an inspiring record of duty and selflessness. If you havent yet met heroes such as Vivian Bullwinkel and Margot Turner youll definitely want to pick up Nightingales Bluebirds &amp; Angels of True Stories of the Courage and Heroism of Nurses on the Front Line in WWII today!
language: English
title: Nightingales, Bluebirds and Angels of Mercy: True Stories of Heroic Front Line Nurses in WWII
publisher: None