Always the children
Subtitle: a nurse's story of home and war
By: Anne Watts
Edition: Large print.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781408488140; 9781408488157
Subjects: Nurses; Biography; Disaster nursing; Pediatric nursing; Children and war; War; Relief of sick and wounded; Large type books
Description: Anne Watts grew up in a small Welsh village in the 1940s. Inspired by geography lessons, she broke away from the conventional options open to women and trained as a nurse and midwife, joined the Save the Children Fund, and was posted to Vietnam in 1967. One of only three British nurses in the region, Anne was faced with a vision of hell that her training had barely prepared her for. She witnessed the random cruelty of warfare, nursing injured and orphaned children and caring for wounded and dying servicemen. She went on to take her skills to the victims of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, to Lebanon during the Israeli occupation, and Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. Over some forty-five years Anne has brought her courage and compassion to those most in need of help.
Notes: Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster.