The Wounded Nurse

Grace - The handicapped heroine who never gave up, a gripping WW2 historical novel (WW2 Girls)

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Pub Date 18 Feb 2022 | Archive Date 01 Jun 2022

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Italy 1944, Grace, a military nurse, is injured in a German plane attack and loses her leg. For her, the war is over.

Lying in a military hospital south of Rome, Grace decides to escape the convoy back home. She wants to recover, become a nurse once again, and tend to other wounded soldiers.

John, who was blinded from his injury, lies in bed next to her, and at night Grace begins to read him letters from the woman awaiting him back home. He's the only one who doesn't see her disability.

But, as Grace becomes more attached to John, she starts lying to him, afraid to hurt his feelings and destroy their relationship.

Entangled in lies and trying to hide her injury, Grace realizes she may not find someone to love her, and that the path to recovery will be harder than she thought.

Through her own eyes, Grace tells the story of the never ending war at the Italian front with the wounded soldiers arriving to the hospital, the bomber pilots fighting against the Germans, and the other nurses around her, but most of all, it's a story of a young woman who struggles to love herself again, despite her disability.

Italy 1944, Grace, a military nurse, is injured in a German plane attack and loses her leg. For her, the war is over.

Lying in a military hospital south of Rome, Grace decides to escape the convoy...


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“You’re no longer a nurse, you’re a cripple who should have been sitting on the deck of a U.S. Army hospital ship on your way to New York Harbour, drinking hot American Army milk and being excited to see the Statue of Liberty appear on the horizon.”

Israeli author Alex Amit has presented a unique look at frontline medicine in WW2 as he shines a spotlight on women’s bravery during the dark days of war.

His protagonist, twenty-three-year-old Grace, is an American Medical Corps nurse from Chicago whose internship takes her to a field hospital in the south of Rome where she’s injured in a German aerial attack. Imagine, just eight days into your training and you’re wounded. It’s one thing, I imagine, to be caring for injured soldiers, but quite another to be on the opposite side of healing. The war may have begun already, but for Grace, a bigger, more personal war is waging.

Losing her leg has a profound effect on Grace and she struggles to accept it and allow others to still see her as a nurse. Amit explores the devastation of being wounded in the line of duty and the process involved in learning to love oneself again. Paralleling Grace’s struggle, is the struggle on the Italian front, one of the lesser-known European conflicts in WW2. Amit introduces his readers to a variety of people, casualties of the attack on the German line, and shows us the difficulty of maintaining their humanity while attempting to heal. You’ll read about a blinded soldier named John who is the recipient of Grace’s kindness, a nurse at the military hospital named Audrey, a bitter and angry Italian villager named Francesca and a B17 bomber pilot named Henry.

Amit’s success is in his unique plot and his ability to share the experiences of a cross-section of people affected while defending the Italian front. Amit has a wonderful ability to place the reader midst the action and to tap into the characters’ emotions. I truly felt like it was my finger in the soldier’s wound attempting to stop the bleeding!

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A triumph of two people learning to deal with their disabilities after tragic circumstances. If anyone wants to learn what it’s like trying to cope with a new disability or trying to see through the eyes of a disabled person, this is the book to read.

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It’s definitely an unforgettable story and it just gets more beautiful and moving as it goes on until it reaches its conclusion which is a perfect ending. I absolutely loved it.

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