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Catherine Carreg longs to escape her monotonous life in Wales, and, with the help of her friend Deio, runs away to London, where she volunteers as a nurse and is thrown into a living nightmare amid the chaos of war.

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.

Chronicles the experiences of American nurses who served in the Philippines during World War II.

In "Blockade Billy," a retired coach recounts the story of "Blockade Billy" Blakely, the only player to have his record erased from baseball history, and in "Morality," an elderly minister recovering from a stroke offers to pay his home care nurse a large sum of money if she will commit a criminal act.

Follows the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.

Lynda Van Devanter tells of joining the Army as a nurse in 1969 and serving for a year in Vietnam, and discusses the effects of the experience on her life.

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.

Examines the mystery surrounding Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day at the end of World War II, describing the people who claimed to be in the photograph and their backgrounds.

Describes the life and work of Florence Nightingale, the nineteenth-century English woman considered to be the founder of modern nursing.

Chronicles the life and medical career of Florence Nightingale. Describes her childhood in England, her nursing experience in the Crimean War, and her postwar work as an author and hospital reformer.

Mary Jane Nealon chronicles her experiences as a nurse, recounting what she has learned about compassion and caring while helping others in remote areas, in the first AIDS ward in New York city, and while tending to her dying parents.

An American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter caught in the 20th century's most dramatic event, the rebirth of Israel.

Simple text and photographs introduce the roles of a nurse.