Bandaging the Blitz

@2@In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to fulfill her dream to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirlwind of long days, hard work, new friends and plenty of mischief, but just ten months later Britain declares war on Germany and life at the hospital is transformed. Phyll's days become an endless cycle of air-raid sirens, injured servicemen and anxiously waiting for news of loved ones. And when she falls in love with a handsome young solider, Alistair, Phyll's work provides the only distraction from worrying about his safety.@3@@2@@18@Bandaging the Blitz @19@is a true story of coming-of-age in terrible times, of the blossoming of first romance into a life-long love affair, and of a young woman whose eagerness to do good in the world brought her suddenly face-to-face with death and drama in all its many guises.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Phyll MacDonald Ross, I D Roberts, I. D. Roberts, Phyll MacDonald Roberts, Ian Ross, Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, Phyll Macdonald Ross
• Publisher: Sphere
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780751559910
• ISBN: 978-0-7515-5991-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; London, Greater London, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs