Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Jerry Palmer is the former Professor of Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of seven other books on various aspects of literature, popular culture and the mass media. His Memories from the Frontline (Palgrave 2018) is an analysis of soldiers’ memoirs of the Great War.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Hospitals and Nursing Before the Great War.- 3. Nurses and the Military Medical Services in the Great War.- 4. Women and War Work (1): Debates and Issues.- 5. Women and War Work (2): Nursing.- 6. The Nurse Memoirs (1).- 7. The Nurse Memoirs (2).- 8. The Nurse Memoirs (3): Nurse Memoirs in Nazi Germany.- 9. The Rhetorical Strategies of Nurse Memoirs.- 10. After the War: Nursing Reform and Collective Memory.- 11. Conclusion.