
No Man's Land
The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
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The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I
A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war and the Spanish flu, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments.
In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of global war and pandemic when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"Meticulously researched, written with élan and wit, Moore's account comes at just the right time... No Man's Land reminds us that people can rise to an occasion, that the biggest advances—for medicine, for humanity—can come during the toughest times, as a result of the toughest times. It reminds us that great courage and great ingenuity are possible even when the world feels very dark."—New York Times
"An absorbing and powerful narrative of how two determined women used the crisis of war to create an opportunity to accomplish goals that they couldn't achieve in peacetime.... Ms. Moore has an eye for detail that brings her story to life."—Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating, carefully researched... Wendy Moore vividly depicts the convoys of seriously wounded soldiers arriving straight from the battlefields in France in the hospital's courtyard in the middle of the night... Moore is superb at describing the medical advances that resulted in seven research papers by Endell Street doctors being published in The Lancet, among the first ever by women."—Guardian
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“Too Much for Human Endurance”
- The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg
- De: Ronald D. Kirkwood
- Narrado por: Bob Neufeld
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to “Too Much for Human Endurance” and learn about the George Spangler farm hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Readable and Entertaining
- De My Mother's Daughter en 04-06-21
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The Wolves at the Door
- The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy
- De: Judith Pearson
- Narrado por: Patrice O’Neill
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 to follow a dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer. After watching Hitler roll over Poland and France, she enlisted to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret espionage and sabotage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France where, if captured, imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Gestapo was all but assured.
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The narrator is ruining the book for me
- De Penni Khandi en 06-19-14
De: Judith Pearson
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And If I Perish
- Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
- De: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 21 h y 56 m
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In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses. For more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.
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Mind blown! I learned so much!
- De Christine Ciana Calabrese en 05-08-22
De: Evelyn M. Monahan, y otros
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Our Mothers' War
- American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
- De: Emily Yellin
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book.
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Amazing
- De Sam I en 02-04-22
De: Emily Yellin
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
- The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
- De: The Countess of Carnarvon
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS series, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war.
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the lowdown on Downton times
- De connie en 03-17-12
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We Band of Angels
- The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
- De: Elizabeth M. Norman
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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We Band of Angelsis the story of women searching for adventure, caught up in the drama and danger of war. On the same day the Japanese Imperial Navy launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, it also struck American bases in the Far East, chief among them the Philippines. That raid led to the first major land battle for America in World War II and, in the end, to the largest defeat and surrender of American forces.
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A very moving tribute!
- De mark nelsen en 05-17-17
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Eleanor
- De: David Michaelis
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 19 h y 16 m
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In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation.
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Stands apart from other biographies of ER
- De Debra Malone en 11-20-20
De: David Michaelis
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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell
- A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam
- De: Barbara Hesselman Kautz MSN RN
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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When she was 18, she joined the army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.
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Loved this
- De N. Thomas en 02-13-20
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line
- Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
- De: Major General Mari K. Eder US Army (Ret.)
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunn
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII - in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.
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Ending very poorly done
- De Jacqueline Bailey en 10-03-21
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The Correspondents
- Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
- De: Judith Mackrell
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men.
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Narration was nails on a chalkboard
- De aunt deb en 12-20-21
De: Judith Mackrell
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Testament of Youth
- De: Vera Brittain
- Narrado por: Sheila Mitchell
- Duración: 23 h y 54 m
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This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil prewar era.
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Old Favorite With Issues
- De Sara en 01-15-16
De: Vera Brittain
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The Volunteer
- One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz
- De: Jack Fairweather
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a young Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: intentionally get captured and transported to the new camp to report back on what was going on there. But gathering information was not his only task: he was to execute an attack from inside - where the Germans would least expect it. The name of the camp was Auschwitz.
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It is impossible to hear of the atrocities of Auschwitz without being. Forced to consider man’s infinite cruelty
- De Marge Greenwald en 07-15-19
De: Jack Fairweather
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Hell and Good Company
- The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work.
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Awkward approach to a civil war
- De sabas en 01-17-17
De: Richard Rhodes
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre No Man's Land
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- Dean Houdeshel
- 04-07-23
Entertaining and informative
I listened to this recording straight through. He captivated me like few things I have ever read. I cannot give it high enough marks for both style of writing and subject matter highly recommended!
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- Patricia Ferrer
- 04-04-24
women in medicine history
Great story, love the research. I feel this story could have been told in a more contracted way. These ladies made a difference in ont only surgical health care during the war but showed the worth of a women's intellect, drive, common sense and capabilities. it was a first foot in the steps of women in medicine, regardless of their sexual preferences. today, women in medicine equal to their male counterparts.... however some specialties are more male dominant, by choice.
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- F. Buzz
- 10-13-22
Well researched and fascinating
This nonfiction account of Londons Endell St Hospital during WWI is eye-opening and well told. I learned so much about the path towards women’s suffrage and the struggles of women to work as physicians - it was a king and bumpy path to where we are today and so important to understand how often hard-won rights were taken away. We need to appreciate how hard it was to get to the equality - incomplete though it still is - that we enjoy today
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- Momma
- 10-20-24
Amazing history!
I knew of Rosie the riveter from World War II, but I did not know about the women’s work in Europe during World War I and how that changed the course of all women doctors for the future. What those women did but shear will and grit is impressive. In addition the number of live they directly saved!
This book should be discussed in all schools showing what it takes to make change. And how constant doubt can be over come.
The book is long, but the details are wonderful!
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- Becky B.
- 01-20-21
Fascinating history of women in medicine
A very interesting look at the intersection of suffragettes in England, a history of women in the medical field in England, and the WWI need for medical personnel.
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- L. Kitchings
- 09-06-21
Female heros of Sufferage, War work, and equality
An amazing history of powerful queer women who's lives and policy advocacy effect us to this day. Fighting for Suffrage, equal work, equal pay, and medical contribution to the war effort- they changed the outcome of the war and the world going forward. They lived by the Suffrage motto, Deeds Not Words and gave it true meaning.
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- Three River
- 08-01-20
Very informative
Decisions on a person’s ability based on a person’s sex, race, religion, or national origin just baffles me and has all my 70+ years
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- DFK
- 06-17-21
Important material, too repetitive
Like another reviewer, I was inspired by the review in The New York Times Book Review to listen to this book. And, like that other reviewer, I was disappointed. The topic is important. I am a feminist and have been as early as I can remember (going back to kindergarten, though I didn’t know the word then) and certainly relate to being faced with unequal access as a woman, and I certainly appreciate the story of these women who served the Allies in WWI and who were pioneering women in the field of medicine (and don’t forget the support staff). I knew more about these same problems faced by women in WWII - not being treated equally, not being paid equally or given equal rank, not receiving veterans benefits, etc., and returning men replacing women, many of whom loved their jobs and needed to support themselves, too. So I am now aware how much history repeated itself regarding the treatment of women during wartime. But I found that the information was extremely repetitive. I think all the points could have been made, the remarkable achievements, how well the hospital was run, how it was staffed entirely by women, in half the time or less. The book needed a good editor to tell the author to consolidate or find another way to organize it so that we don’t have to keep hearing (or reading) the same points over and over. Though the narrator did a fine enough job, I would think that since the author is English (or I think so - she lives in London), the characters were primarily English and the events took place in England or in France, but under the auspices of the British, that the narrator would have been British. So now I found out that there is a British version of the book called Endell Street, narrated by a British narrator. I would have preferred that. I never get why two editions (with two narrations) of the same book are published. Two editions, I can get, because in print the spelling might be different. But two narrations? Anyway, if you want a British narrator, go for the British edition.
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- Ronald
- 05-24-20
Disappointing to me
Having read Sarah Lyall's NYTimes review, I began this audiobook with great anticipation that was not fulfilled. How many times can the author state it was remarkable that these women ran hospitals in France and one of the best in the U.K. during WWI? Yes, I accept the importance of the accomplishment, that is why I am reading the book.
As a retired anesthesiologist I looked forward to details of clinical care or hospital organization, but this book seemed based on letters and diaries of participants. WWI was a slog, and I found this book to be the same.
Additionally, the large roster of women working at the hospital was tough for me to follow in the audio format. I'd have had an easier time reading about them.
Yes, the book mentions the horror of the arrival of many deaths from influenza just as the war wound down, but even in this account I found few interesting details.
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