by Mary Morris (2015)
1939: Mary Mulry was eighteen years old when she arrived in London from Ireland to begin training as a nurse. She had hoped for an adventure and a new start; she could not have predicted what the next seven years would bring. In this extraordinary diary Mary recorded in intimate detail her experiences as a nurse on the Home Front and later working on the frontline in Europe. In Normandy, she tended to Allied soldiers and German prisoners of war. In war-torn Belgium, she witnessed harrowing casualties from the Battle of Arnhem. Yet, romance, glamour and adventure were never far away for Mary.
Geoffrey Wellum
"Geoffry Wellum tells the ... true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world has ever seen. It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him on as a 'pupil pilot' at the minimum age of seventeen and a half in 1939. In his fervor to fly, he gave little thought to the coming war"--Jacket.
Andrew Gurr
Introducing this edition, Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines controversial critical interpretations, discusses the play's fluctuating fortunes in performance, and analyses the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization. The first Folio text is radically rethought, making original use of the First Quarto (1600).
Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Die Berliner Journalistin Ruth Andreas-Friedrich (1901–1977) erzählt in ihren bewegenden Tagebuchaufzeichnungen vom Widerstand gegen die Naziherrschaft, dem schwierigen Alltag in den Kriegsjahren und den Jahren danach. (Quelle: Suhrkamp Verlag)
Martha Vicinus & Bea Nergaard
Letters trace Florence Nightingale's work on behalf of British soldiers, hospital reform, and professional nursing, and shares her views on the role of women.