Endell Street tells the story of the suffragette doctors, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray, who ran Endell Street Military Hospital in the heart of London in World War One. Endell Street was the only hospital within the British Army to be staffed by women - all the doctors, nurses and orderlies were female except for a handful of male helpers. The women of Endell Street treated 26,000 wounded shipped back from the frontline in France, Gallipoli and elsewhere. After the war the hospital stayed open to treat victims of the Spanish flu. But when peace came everything changed.
Endell Street is published by Atlantic Books in the UK and as No Man's Land by Basic Books in the US.
Reviews for Endell Street
"Meticulously researched, written with élan and wit, Moore’s account comes at just the right time… “No Man’s Land” reminds us that people can rise to an occasion, that the biggest advances — for medicine, for humanity — can come during the toughest times, as a result of the toughest times. It reminds us that great courage and great ingenuity are possible even when the world feels very dark.”
Sarah Lyall in the New York Times
"This is the best book I've read about the First World War since Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. ...this fascinating book is a microcosm of early 20th-century Britain at its very best - and its very worst."
Ysenda Maxtone Graham in The Times
“An absorbing and powerful narrative … Ms. Moore has an eye for detail that brings her story to life.”
Melanie Kirkpatrick in the Wall Street Journal
"Rarely is a book so important, so timely... vividly and meticulously written, Endell Street is a masterpiece to stretcher straight into a major film studio."
Philippa Stockley in the London Evening Standard
"One hundred years on, this compelling book at last gives Endell Street its due... Wendy Moore vividly depicts the convoys of seriously wounded soldiers arriving straight from the battlefields in France ... Moore is superb at describing the medical advances ..."
Ann Kennedy Smith in The Guardian
"...riveting... Moore has scoured archives and diaries to produce a meticulously researched history of this extraordinary institution.... By writing this splendid book, Moore has ensured that the efforts of these pioneering women will never be forgotten.'
Patricia Fara in the Literary Review
"This is history worth knowing and a book worth reading; it is a story of the triumph of the human spirit."
New York Journal of Books
"Informative, compelling and poignant, Endell Street is a forgotten story superbly told"
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