A Woman's Diary of the War: Life of a Nurse at the Front Kindle Edition

Painful reading but not because of reasons you may thimk It's like a recruiting pamphlet for the war. The author is a women of her time and class and goes full force in depicting the hun as baby bayonetting barbarians. There is next to nothing in the book about nursing the wounded except for making tea. Pages and pages of small detail describing ruined buildings and the superior character of the Belgians and British. Stereotypical accounts of the lower class soldier( cor blimey, luv a duk guvna ) and praise be for the mettle of the educated classes. Skipped most of the last chapter as it descended further into a flowery travelogue of the wartime Belgium countryside. An excellent study in snobbery and a war justifying attitude that helped fuel the war in first place.

A journal of bearing the unbearable, and somehow managing to cope regardless, a voice from the world that died in the twenties, the world that the poets killed with their ridiculous pity, when the strength and courage shown here held up half the sky.

I found the book hard going.

I didn’t like this book which was not what I expected.

It wasn't as interesting as other war diaries I have read, rather dull in places

Definitely written from an upper class point of view

very very interesting reading for anyone interested in that field of the war

I v w isited some of the places mentioned in this book and it really came alive to think of real people being the trenches I visited