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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Elsie and Mairi go to war
    sub title: two extraordinary women on the Western Front
  name:
    name part: Atkinson, Diane.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty-year-old divorcee, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic living at home. In 1914, they roared off to London "to do their bit" for the war effort, and within a month they were in Belgium driving ambulances. Frustrated by men dying of shock in their vehicles, they set up their own first-aid post on the front line in the village of Pervyse, near Ypres, risking their lives under sniper fire and heavy bombardment. As news of their courage and expertise spread, the "Angels of Pervyse" became celebrities. Glamorous and influential, they were having the time of their lives, and for four years Elsie and Mairi and stayed in Pervyse until they were nearly killed by gas. But returning home and adjusting to peacetime life--and the role of women in British society--was to prove more challenging than the war.--From publisher description.
  note: Diane Atkinson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: e-be---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Knocker, Elsie
      name part: 1885-1978
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chisholm, Mairi
      name part: 1896-1981
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Medical care
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Medical care
    geographic: Belgium
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Participation, Female
  classification: D507.2 .A75 2010
  classification: 940.47541
  identifier: 9781605980942 (hbk.) :
  identifier: 1605980943 (hbk.) :
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 091104
    record change date: 20151201153042.0
    record identifier: in00002594494