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Book Summary
by Doris Violet Carter
Preface: A.B. Douglas, Official Historian, Canadian Armed Forces 1973-1994
Photographs by the author
168 pages, trade paperback, $19.95
ISBN 0-919676-52-9
Riveting autobiography by a nursing sister in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps throughout World War Two. Lieutenant Doris Carter served overseas from 1940 to 1945 in military hospitals in England, Algeria, Sicily, Italy and Belgium. She was sent to Rome after its fall, where she met Pope Pius XII, discovered that the reason one soldier's wound wouldn't heal was because his watch strap was buried in it, dated an American soldier who rented a whole Roman carnival one evening just for the two of them, and watched in horror as one citizen cut the heart out of another for being a Fascist. "This book will stir memories of those who were there; it certainly enlightens those of us who were." (from "Preface").
About the Author
New Brunswick native Doris Carter graduated as a nurse from Montreal's Victoria Hospital. After her experiences as one of Canada's longest-serving officers overseas, she settled in Ottawa Ontario, and worked with the Board of Education as nurse supervisor in its school system. Doris was very proud of having written her autobiography, and of the success which it has achieved.
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"Miss Carter's book is a reminder that more than 3,500 women served as nurses and associated medical professionals in the Second World War...Wartime recollections tell it like it was."
Dave Brown
Senior Editor
Ottawa Citizen