A Nurse¿s War - A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front

The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone-Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.- Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain-s Trailblazing Military HospitalThe second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. Women like Kathleen Johnstone.This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain-s -Greatest Generation- brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire.In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home.Kathleen-s days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her