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Violetta Thurstan

Violetta Thurstan, MM (4 February 1879 – 13 April 1978) was an English nurse, author, weaver, and administrator whose work included help for refugees and prisoners of war. She knew several languages, travelled frequently and wrote a number of books. The first was about her experiences of nursing in dangerous troublespots during the First World War. She was honoured by three countries for her courage while nursing in the war, and was awarded the Military Medal. (From Wikipedia)

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Books by Violetta Thurstan:

Thurstan, Violetta: Field Hospital and Flying Column: Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium and Russia (London and New York: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1915)
- Gutenberg text
- multiple formats at archive.org
Thurstan, Violetta: The People Who Run: Being the Tragedy of the Refugees in Russia (London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916)
- multiple formats at Google; US access only
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Additional books by Violetta Thurstan in the extended shelves:

Thurstan, Violetta: Field hospital and flying column (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thurstan, Violetta: A text book of war nursing (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)

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