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Original Essays | May 1, 2013

Josh Hanagarne: IMG Seven Books That Actually Changed My Life

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Before her wider fame as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862-63, her lively dispatches appeared in the newspaper Commonwealth. Then, as now, these chronicles revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service. Alcott's rapidly paced prose graphically depicts the facts of hospital life, deftly balancing pathos with gentle humor. A vivid and truthful portrait of an often overlooked aspect of the Civil War, this book remains among the most illuminating reports of the era's medical practices as well as a moving testimonial to the war's human cost.

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Before Little Women brought her wider fame, Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862-63, her lively dispatches revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.
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ISBN:
9780486449005
Author:
Alcott, Louisa May
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Subject:
History
Subject:
United States - Civil War
Subject:
Women authors, American
Subject:
Nurses
Subject:
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Subject:
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-
Subject:
Alcott, Louisa May
Subject:
US History-1800 to Civil War
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Civil War
Publication Date:
20060231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
80
Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.38 in 0.26 lb
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