History Post-confederation (1867-)
A Canadian Nurse in the Great War
The Diaries of Ruth Loggie, 1915–1930
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2021
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), World War I, Women
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774710128
- Publish Date
- Sep 2021
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781774710135
- Publish Date
- Sep 2021
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
More than two thousand Canadian women served as army nurses overseas during the First World War. The opportunity to read a diary written by one of these women—a document which was, strictly speaking, not supposed to be kept in the first place—is a unique privilege. A Canadian Nurse in the Great War grants a peek, through the diary of Ruth Loggie, into a little-known moment of our history. It also offers a glimpse into forbidden territory—women at war. Loggie’s diary provides a daily commentary on life as she experienced it and as the events of the Great War unfolded. How did she cope? What were her thoughts as she lived through what she knew were world-altering events? Raw, fresh, unedited, and immediate, A Canadian Nurse in the Great War is a special document, and a welcome companion to Hebb’s earlier books, Letters Home: Maritimers and the Great War; 1914–1918, and In Their Own Words: Three Maritimers Experience the Great War.
About the author
Ross Hebb is a native of Nova Scotia's South Shore and an eighth-generation descendant of the area's original Foreign Protestant settlers. A graduate of King's College and Dalhousie University, Dr. Hebb received his PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2002. Along with volumes on Maritime Church history, he has also written about the golden age of shipbuilding at St. Martins on the Bay of Fundy. In 2014 he edited the collection Letters Home: Maritimers and the Great War, 1914–1918. Dr. Hebb is married and lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.