Vera Brittain's classic World War I memoir "Testament of Youth" -- with its particular focus on Brittain's life-altering time as a field nurse during the war -- makes the jump to the big screen in a ...

Sister Dorothy Grayson tried to ignore the threat of the German war machine at the gates of the besieged Belgium city of Antwerp – as she worked tirelessly to treat a seemingly endless stream of ...

In his much-admired book published in 1975, The Great War and Modern Memory, the American literary critic and historian, Paul Fussell, wrote about the pervasive myths and legends of WW1, so powerful ...

Nursing in World War One was exhausting, often dangerous work and the women who volunteered experienced the horror of war firsthand, some paying the ultimate price. But their story is surrounded by ...