Anne Powell will be at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday 6th March giving a 1 hour lecture on her book, Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World War. She will also be selling and signing books.
In our collective memory, the First World War is dominated by men. The sailors, soldiers, airmen and politicians about whom histories are written were male, and the first half of the twentieth century was still a time when a woman's place was thought to be in the home. Yet there were some women who contributed to the war effort between 1914 and 1918 as doctors and nurses.
Author Anne Powell has selected extracts from first-hand accounts of the experiences of those female medical personnel who served abroad during the First World War. Filled with stories of bravery and kindliness, it is a book that honours the often unsung contribution made by the female doctors and nurses who helped to alleviate some of the suffering of the First World War.