Roses of No Man's Land

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD

''On the face of it,'' writes Lyn Macdonald, ''no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War ...''

Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents and draughty huts they fought ano...