Nurses of Passchendaele Retired Poppies The Harlem Hellfighters

The Harlem Hellfighters

and resolution with Winston Churchill

fueled by money

and swagger through the streets of Cairo

carrying millionaires and aristocrats

Nurses of Passchendaele Retired Poppies The Harlem HellfightersDescription by Christine E. Hallett Paperback The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian coasts, nurses of many nations cared for these traumatized and damaged men. Drawing on letters, diaries and