Gleichen helena (2 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 344. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Helena Gleichen, Queen Victoria's great-niece and cousin to George V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women were meek, submissive and led restricted lives. A passionate horsewoman and successful artist, the autobiographical anecdotes in the earlier part of the book are lively and amusing. The longer second section gives a detailed account of how she and Nina Hollings, her long-term companion and sister of the composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, raised and manned one of the first mobile X-Ray units to be used by the British in World War I - Marie Curie was organizing the French radiography service - for which they both received numerous decorations. Helena Gleichen paints a vivid picture of the war in Italy, which tends to be little remembered compared to the Western Front, and above all gives an extremely interesting account of how the X-ray Unit was set up and operated, and the considerable impact it had on the treatment and survival rate of the wounded. Somewhat used copy: some wear and rubbing at spine with considerable fading to covers - otherwise sound with complete text; near very good minus. Time Book Club stamp on the rear pastedown.…