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Clara Barton made a difference in the lives of many wounded soldiers during the American Civil War. She not only cared for them in hospitals, but also helped families identify those who died or went missing during battle. As founder of the American Red Cr Age Appropriate and Achievable Content, Social Studies Content, Timelines, Detailed Table of Contents, For Further Information Section, Glossary, Index.

Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II. She and her little brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. The teenage Margarete was preoccupied with school, friends, boys, and sports but she was also aware of a growing air of secrecy and fear among her elders and she struggled to make sense of it all. She lost her brother to the army, treated wounded boy soldiers for the German Red Cross, and ran scared through the streets as Allied bombs decimated her city. Just when she thought the worse was over and she and her mother were on a train to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia. Margarete survived the war but the wartime tragedies she experienced would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing training. On the battlefields, she and the other nurses find themselves up against corruption, opposition and wounded men such as they have never seen before. Charlotte's life intersects with that of an Irish immigrant who turns to the unthinkable when faced with starvation after her husband leaves for war.

A biography of Mary Benjamin, a head nurse in an American hospital, focusing on her career responsibilities and her thoughts and feelings about her work.

"In the winter of 1941, as Japanese bombs began to fall on Luzon, American Army and Navy nurses stationed in the Philippines suddenly found themselves caught in a fiery hell of war. Undaunted, they did everything in their power to aid the soldiers, setting up much needed field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor, where they tended to the most devastating injuries of war amidst the raining shells and shrapnel. But the worst was still to come: As Bataan and Corregidor fell, ninety-nine of the nurses were herded into internment camps, where they endured three years of suffering, brutality, and starvation. Here, in letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts, is the story of what really happened during those dark days, woven together into a compelling saga of women in war"--.

Recounts the experiences of American military nurses serving overseas during World War II.

Little Nancy, who loves to play nurse, and her brothers, who are always playing big-boy games, find a way to play together after her nursing skills come in handy.

Twenty-year-old Mary Sutter, a midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon, leaves her home in Albany, New York, and travels to Washington, D.C., where she is taken on as an assistant to chief surgeon William Stipp at a Union hospital, and earns his admiration and love.

An American combat nurse relate her experience in Vietnam and her personal healing and renewal afterwards.

A biography of the former U.S. Army colonel who had a long and distinguished career as a nurse, until she revealed that she was a lesbian.