In May of 1917, U.S. medical teams became the first American troops to arrive in the European war zone. Helen Dore Boylston served in France with the first Harvard Unit, a U.S. medical team that ...

She witnessed the devastating toll the fighting of the First World War had on British troops as she tried to save the lives of the injured. And through it all, young nurse Violet Gosset risked ...

"A lot of the soldiers were actually very scared … and knew they were going back to carnage." Australian nurse Anne Donnell writes vividly of the fear felt by Australian troops in her diary in ...

IT WAS the end of World War I, live from the battlefront, in the words of the men and women who were there. In their letters, diaries and photographs, we reveal their sadness, joy and deep regret for ...

The handwritten diary of a World War II nurse documents her 34 months as a prisoner in an internment camp run by the Japanese military. “They were worried they might be bombed by Americans. They were ...

In May of 1917, U.S. medical teams became the first American troops to arrive in the European war zone. Helen Dore Boylston served in France with the first Harvard Unit, a U.S. medical team that ...

And through it all, young nurse Violet Gosset risked punishment by writing her own first-hand account of what she ­experienced at a battlefield hospital near the frontline in France. It was forbidden ...