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Looking after the wounded of the First World Conflict was challenging and challenging work, challenging extensive knowledge, specialized skill, and high levels of dedication. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time because of their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology. They had become viewed as self-sacrificing heroines, affectionate foils to the men combatant and doctors' handmaidens, somewhat than being appreciated as trained professionals performing significant work in their own right. Christine Hallett challenges these common myths to reveal the true report of allied nursing in the First World Conflict - one which is both more technical and much more absorbing. Drawing after information from archives around the world, Veiled Warriors offers a convincing bank account of nurses' wartime activities and an obvious appraisal with their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the European and the Eastern Fronts. Nurses presumed they were involved with a multi-layered challenge. Primarily, these were fighting for the lives with their patients on the "second battlefield" of casualty clearing channels, transports, and military nursing homes. Beyond this, these were an integral element of the allied military machine, placing their own lives vulnerable in field nursing homes close to the front lines, on board hospital ships vulnerable to enemy submarine attack, and in base hospitals at the mercy of heavy bombardment. As working women in a sometimes hostile, chauvinistic world, allied nurses were also fighting to gain acceptance for their vocation and political protection under the law for their sex. For them, military nursing will help to win not only the battle itself, but also a more powerful tone for women in the post-war world.
