The Call and the Answer: A First-Hand Account of Volunteer Aid Workers in the First World War - Couverture souple

Binyon, Laurence

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ISBN 10 : 0993331122 ISBN 13 : 9780993331121

Editeur : Dare-Gale Press, 2018

Synopsis

At the height of the war in 1917, Laurence Binyon spent a month touring Red Cross hospitals and field canteens on the Western Front, talking to the men and women who were serving as volunteer nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, canteen workers and medical orderlies. This is his account of that extraordinary journey and their remarkable heroism.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A remarkable first-hand account of volunteer aid workers in the First World War. At the height of the war in 1917, Laurence Binyon spent a month touring Red Cross hospitals and field canteens on the Western Front, talking to the men and women who were serving as volunteer nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, canteen workers and medical orderlies. This is his account of that extraordinary journey and their remarkable heroism.
A great many women and men answered the call to offer their services to help soldiers caught up in the horror of war, often at great personal risk to themselves. Binyon himself was typical in leaving behind a comfortable job to carry out the hard, menial and often dirty tasks of a medical orderly in a military hospital. Binyon s For the Fallen is the most famous poem ever written about the war, read at Services of Remembrance and carved onto thousands of war memorials:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Biographie de l'auteur

Laurence Binyon (1869 1943) was a celebrated poet and expert on Japanese and Chinese art. When the First World War broke out in 1914 Binyon,who was over-age for military service, volunteered to serve as a medical orderly at a military hospital for French soldiers near Verdun.
Binyon s Poems of Two Wars (Dare-Gale Press, 2016) established his reputation as a major voice in both world wars, writing about his experience on the Western Front, and about London during the Blitz. In 1917 the Red Cross commissioned him to write about their extensive work in wartime France. This is an abridged version of that original account first published in 1919 as For Dauntless France, and not available since - until now.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dare-Gale Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0993331122
• ISBN 13: 9780993331121
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible