{"product_id":"contacts-and-contrasts-helena-gleichen-9781905021093","title":"Contacts and Contrasts","description":"Helena Gleichen, Queen Victoria's great-niece and cousin to George V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women were meek, submissive and led restricted lives. A passionate horsewoman and successful artist, the autobiographical anecdotes in the earlier part of the book are lively and amusing. The longer second section gives a detailed account of how she and Nina Hollings, her long-term companion and sister of the composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, raised and manned one of the first mobile X-Ray units to be used by the British in World War I - Marie Curie was organizing the French radiography service - for which they both received numerous decorations. Helena Gleichen paints a vivid picture of the war in Italy, which tends to be little remembered compared to the Western Front, and above all gives an extremely interesting account of how the X-ray Unit was set up and operated, and the considerable impact it had on the treatment and survival rate of the wounded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helena Gleichen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1905021097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781905021093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mansion Field\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d","brand":"Helena Gleichen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939114221823,"sku":"9781905021093","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_78f613e6-486a-4d7f-8af3-4f333aff955c.jpg?v=1681439579","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contacts-and-contrasts-helena-gleichen-9781905021093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}