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Nurses of Passchendaele

In this extract from her new book, nursing historian Christine Hallett reveals how nurses in casualty clearing stations risked their lives to care for men wounded in the Battle of Passchendaele during the first world war.
Posted 04 August 2017 - 12:49
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