Mary Borden worked for four years in an evacuation hospital unit following the front lines up and down the European theater of the First World War. This beautifully written book, to be read alongside the likes of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, is a collection of her memories and impressions of that experience. Describing the men as they march into battle, engaging imaginatively with the stories of individual soldiers, and recounting procedures at the field hospital, the author offers a perspective on the war that is both powerful and intimate.
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Malcolm Brown worked as a documentary producer with the BBC before joining the Imperial War Museum as a freelance historian. He contributed five volumes about the 1914–18 conflict to the Imperial War Museum’s series about the two World Wars, which was awarded a Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature in 2005.