Reviews for Sisters in Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story

The average rating for Sisters in Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-12-13 00:00:00 Oliver Merrick This was an amazing and heart-rendering story of the QA's Tans and other nursing personel during WW2. Courage, heartache, suffering, unbelieveable conditions and wherever the fighting was so were the nurses there too. What a story! I have been outraged, in tears and have laughed at parts of this book. I have travelled all over the world with these nurses from France, Belgium, India, Africa, Singapore, Burma, Hong Kong, Malta, to places that have changed their name several times since then. These nurses lived through shipwrecks and being shot at in the water by Japanese soldiers and airman, starved, tortured and raped in POW camps in jungles, under siege in Malta for 3 yrs, lived in deserts in Egypt and Africa with hardly any water to drink never mind about washing. A must-read tale of courage in dreadfull conditions and circumstances.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-17 00:00:00 Timothy Heidt This was a fascinating book to read. I knew nothing about the QAs before starting and learnt so much during the course of reading the book. Some of the details are quite harrowing, though the comments made by the nurses themselves are revealingly modest about their own actions. Especially, difficult to read were the comments about the treatment meted out by the Japanese. Also, the rescue of inmates from Blsen and the prisoner of war camps. I would recommend this as a different slant on the various books written about the Second World War, most of which have been written from a man's point of view and seldom mention the part played by women.