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 First World War, female doctors were restricted to
treating women and children, Murray and Anderson's work was so
successful that the British Army asked them to run a hospital in the
heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital and staffed from
top to bottom by women, Endell Street soon became known for its
lifesaving treatments and lively atmosphere.
In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of
global war 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.