My Child Is Sick!
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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand medical services in the First Word War
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The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with scalpels, bandages and drugs. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, orderlies and ambulance drivers, dentists, chiropodists, pharmacists, physiotherapists and chaplains cared for the sick and wounded, often at great personal risk. Veterinarians did the same for horses, camels and other animals.
The challenges were enormous — horrific injuries, gas and deadly diseases, especially the influenza of 1918. There were some astonishing successes — most famously by plastic surgery pioneers Harold Gillies and Henry Pickerill — but the price was high, for patients and carers.
The skilled, compassionate and courageous New Zealand medical personnel of the Great War have not always received the attention they deserve. Anna Rogers tells their remarkable story.
Anna Rogers has an MA in English from Canterbury University and has spent most of her working life as a freelance fiction and non-fiction book editor. She has also been a bookseller and a sub-editor for the Listener. Her eight books of non-fiction include While You’re Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899–1948 and illustrated histories of the West Coast and Canterbury. Anna co-edited Annie’s War: A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 1916–19 (2014) and contributed an essay to How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War (2014). She has also edited an anthology of writing about Christchurch and adapted books for radio, and she is a regular book reviewer.
- ISBN-13
- 9780995100190
- Publisher
- Massey University Press
- Imprint
- Massey University Press
- Publication date
- 8 December 2018
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 496
- Dimensions
- 250 x 190 mm
- Language
- English
