Pride of America, We're with You : The Letters of Grace Anderson, U. S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I

All of our strength we'll gladly give you ...In their unit song, Grace Anderson and the Base Hospital No. 115 nurses promised the soldiers: ?Pride of America, we're with you, all of our strength we'll gladly give you ? More than ten thousand World War I army nurses volunteered for a perilous overseas venture. They aided the troops in the fight for democracy before American women had the right to vote.Grace, a nurse anesthetist, helped save lives in the operating rooms and hospital wards. She healed ?our boys? and her own heartaches'a life-changing romance and the tragic loss of a loved one. Her 1917?1925 letters follow her from Camp Pike training to France, occupied Germany, and her return home. The narrative interweaves her correspondence with World War I history and her personal life, including her secret relationship with an army surgeon. The true story focuses on the human side of the Great War and recounts Grace's challenges in the postwar years