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Pamela D. Toler

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Pamela D. Toler goes beyond the familiar boundaries of American history to tell stories from other parts of the world, as well as history from the other side of the battlefield, the gender line, or the color bar. She is the author of The Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War, vis mere among other books. Her work has appeared in Aramco World, Calliope, History Channel Magazine, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and on Time.com. vis mindre

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Mankind: The Story of All of Us [2012 TV mini series] (2012) — Original book — 10 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2006 (2005) — Author "Artists on War: Raphael of the Canteens" — 9 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2009 (2008) — Author "Artists on War: War in Miniature" — 9 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2007 (2007) — Author "Artists on War: Baron Gros and The Pesthouse in Jaffa" — 8 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2008 (2007) — Author "Artists on War: Showing Too Much of the Horrors of War" — 8 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2006 (2006) — Author "Artists on War: 'Fair Greece, Sad Relic'" — 3 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2010 (2010) — Author "Artists on War: Heroes in Coats, Breeches, and Cock'd Hats" — 3 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2014 (2013) — Author "Artists: Exhausting Possibilities" — 3 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2011 (2011) — Author "Artists on War: George Caleb Bingham’s “Order No. 11”" — 2 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2020 (2020) — Author "Artists: Images of the Underbelly" — 1 eksemplar

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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | 17 andre anmeldelser | Sep 15, 2022 |
This is popular science/history for the masses. I enjoyed the tramp across pre-history to modern times, but the book is let down by errors and omissions.
We are told the during the ice age "the temperature dropped to roughly minus 60 degrees Celsius". Really? Where? Everywhere?? Was every ocean on earth frozen solid??
Then there are the clunky sentence constructions, the maps with careful colour coding - but no explanations, the map the labels Japan as Taiwan. I could go on.
What a shame. Something that could be a great introduction for the lay reader is let down by editing and production problems that should have never got to print.… (mere)
 
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mbmackay | 2 andre anmeldelser | Feb 25, 2022 |
Browsing the Library I saw this book and was immediately attracted to it as it had the PBS mark on the cover. Mercy Street was a series a few years back and I really enjoyed it.

The book covers the real women who served as nurses and matrons during the civil war at Mansion house in Alexandria, Virginia. It delves into the hardships these women faced and the battles they fought with the Doctors and the Government. Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinny and countless other women paved the way for nursing to become respected profession.

I love learning something new, and what I learned here was that these women developed the "special diet" for patients unable to digest an ordinary meal.

This is a very readable book, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning the roots of nursing in America.
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JBroda | 1 anden anmeldelse | Sep 24, 2021 |
Interesting primer on female warriors throughout history, with a nice balance time- and location-wise.
If you already read up on the subject, you can pretty much skip this one, I already knew about most women mentioned...
Nevertheless a good starting point if you are interested in the subject.
 
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HeyMimi | 17 andre anmeldelser | Dec 28, 2020 |

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