The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two
pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and
transformed modern medicine during World War I.
A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa
Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a
luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's
battlefields. Although, prior to the war and the Spanish flu, female
doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and
Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set
up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes'
Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments.
In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of
global war and pandemic when women were, for the first time, allowed to
operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful
reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.