num_pages: 320
description: 1939: eighteen-year-old trainee nurse Mry Mulry arrives in London from Ireland hoping for adventure. Little did she know what the next seven years would bring.In her extraordinary diary Mary records in intimate detail her life as a nurse both on the Home Front and on the frontline. From nursing children during bombing raids in London to treating Allied soldiers in Normandy Mary's experiences gave her vivid and unforgettable stories for the private diary she was dedicated to keeping.Filled with romance glamour and inevitably sadness too these are the rich memories of an irrepressible personality living through the turbulent years of the Second World War.
language: English
title: A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime
publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson