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Women at war : the story of fifty military nurses who served in Vietnam / Elizabeth M. Norman.
LIBRA DS559.8.W6 N67 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norman, Elizabeth M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Women--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Medical care.
- Medical care.
- Nurses--United States.
- Nurses.
- United States.
- Nurses--Vietnam.
- Military Nursing--history.
- Vietnam.
- Armed Conflicts--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Military Nursing--history.
- Vietnam.
- Armed Conflicts--history.
- Physical Description:
- x, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1990]
- Summary:
- Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the experiences they had while they were there, and how war affected them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
- Notes:
- Outgrowth of author's doctoral dissertation.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812282493
- 0812213173
- OCLC:
- 21332836
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