{"product_id":"wartorn-exchanges-9780774832540","title":"WarTorn Exchanges","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to serve as nursing sisters in the Great War. Over the next four years, the two cared for each other through sickness and health, air raids and bombings, unrelenting work and adventurous leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWar-Torn Exchanges\u003c\/em\u003e offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of Canada's First World War nurses  from the privations of Gallipoli to the heavy casualties of Passchendaele and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis carefully curated and contextualized collection of letters challenges the popular myth of nurses as wartime angels. Instead, Mildred and Laura's letters are filled with the nurses' fears and frustrations, humour and keen observations  revealing how they relied on friendship, wry wit, and professional ethics to carry on in the face of mismanagement, discrimination, illness, deprivation, and trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrea McKenzie provides as indispensable a service to contemporary readers as the women no doubt did for their friends and family during the war. As Mildred exclaimed, in the absence of such accounts, “the people at home have \u003cem\u003eno idea \u003c\/em\u003ewhat the soldiers [and nurses, we might now add] … went through for them.” -- C.M. Haney * BC Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura’s letters to her mother and Mildred’s to her friend Cairine Wilson document a side of the war not found in more formal accounts … [and] close the artificial divide between battle front and home front … McKenzie’s narratives, annotations and deft editing … [make] \u003cem\u003eWar-Torn Exchanges \u003c\/em\u003ean insightful contribution to understanding another aspect of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e * Great War 100 Reads *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf this cadre of women most – but not all, for some were killed in action – returned from war. Some became our leaders in nursing, hospital management, and social services. Some left nursing and became our grandmothers or great grandmothers. We are in their debt, for their work and for their legacy. In their articulation of war, framed by diligent writers and researchers like Cynthia Toman [author of \u003ci\u003eSister Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e, UBC Press 2016] and McKenzie, we discover anew, from Canadian nursing sisters in the First World War, just what war is. From such articulation, we have much to learn.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Margaret Horsfield * The Ormsby Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe letters [of Holland and Forbes] document close links between Canada's home and war fronts. Ties taught lessons about the atrocities of combat and, no doubt, helped inspire subsequent anti-war activity and support for refugees … In short, \u003ci\u003eWar-Torn Exchanges \u003c\/i\u003eprovides inspiration in plenty for both friendship and engagement. \u003c\/p\u003e * Herizons *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Friendship and War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Journeying to War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Lemnos: “Poor Souls” and “Pathetic Sights”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Alexandria and Cairo: Mosques and Minarets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Salonika: In the Shadow of Olympus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 England: Officers and Honours\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 France: Trauma and Taking Charge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion and Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Laura Holland’s Travel Diary, 1907\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography; Notes; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037949657431,"sku":"9780774832540","price":36.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774832540.jpg?v=1750938323","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wartorn-exchanges-9780774832540","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}