{"product_id":"9781905021093","title":"Contacts and Contrasts","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelena 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. Gleichen's fascinating writings are here given a new Introduction by Caroline Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mansion Field","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48254493229291,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":54.91,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781905021093-1.jpg?v=1781709846","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781905021093","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}