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Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam is a memoir written by American writer Lynda Van Devanter in 1983. The memoir, originally published by Beaufort Books, [1] explores Van Devanter's experience as a nurse during the Vietnam War. It was adapted into a popular TV show, China Beach, which ran from 1988 to 1991.
The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War.
The Other ANZACs: Nurses at War 1914-1918 is a 2008 history book by Peter Rees. It is about the involvement of Australian and New Zealand nurses overseas during World War I, especially at Gallipoli and the Western Front. It is the basis for the 2014 ABC television series ANZAC Girls.
Nurse at the Russian Front: A Diary 1914-18 First published by Constable (UK) in 1974. ISBN 0-09-459970-X. (The US edition of this book has the title With the Armies of the Tsar: A Nurse at the Russian Front 1914-1918, and was published by Stein & Day, Briarcliff Manor, New York, 1975. ISBN 0-8128-1793-1)
At the outset of World War II, US Army and US Navy nurses were stationed at Sternberg General Hospital in Manila, and other military hospitals around Manila. During the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942), 88 US Army nurses escaped, in the last week of December 1941, to Corregidor and Bataan.
Her first book, Women at War, examines the previously untold experience of fifty women who served as nurses during the Vietnam War. Her second book, We Band of Angels, is based on interviews with female nurses who were held captive by the Japanese for three years in Bataan, Philippines during World War II.
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author.She is known for her book The Backwash of War in which she chronicled her experience as a nurse in World War I in an often bitter and cynical manner.
Cherry's training at the Spencer Hospital School of Nursing is chronicled in the first two books. There, she meets the classmates who become lifelong friends. With the third book in the series Army Nurse , Cherry joins the Army Nurse Corps , and, after the war, she moves to Greenwich Village .