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Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
by Atkinson, Diane
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1848091354
- ISBN 13
- 9781848091351
- Seller
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About This Item
A tight and unmarked copy- "This is the remarkable story of two brave and charismatic women, the only women to nurse on the Front line in the First World War. Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisolm were decorated with seventeen medals for bravery and self-sacrifice. From the Hardcover edition." About the Author: "Diane Atkinson was born in the North-East and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a Ph.D. on the politics of women's sweated labor. At the Museum of London, she worked as a lecturer and curator specializing in women's history. She has an MA from the University of East Anglia in Life-writing. She is the author of Suffragettes in Pictures, Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality and Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick, which was published in 2003."
Synopsis
When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home borrowing tools from her brother. Little did they know, theirs was to become one of the most extraordinary stories of the First World War. In 1914, they roared off to London 'to do their bit', and within a month they were in the thick of things in Belgium driving ambulances to distant military hospitals. Frustrated by the number of men dying of shock in the back of their vehicles, they set up their own first-aid post on the front line in the village of Pervyse, near Ypres, risking their lives working under sniper fire and heavy bombardment for months at a time. As news of their courage and expertise spread, the 'Angels of Pervyse' became celebrities, visited by journalists and photographers as well as royals and VIPs. Glamorous and influential, they were having the time of their lives, and for four years, Elsie and Mairi and stayed in Pervyse until they were nearly killed by arsenic gas in the spring of 1918. But returning home and adjusting to peacetime life was to prove even more challenging than the war itself.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18281
- Title
- Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front
- Author
- Atkinson, Diane
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1848091354
- ISBN 13
- 9781848091351
- Publisher
- Preface Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8 vo
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