„Sestras Americana” – америчке медицинске сестре у Србији у Првом светском рату
“Sestras Americana” – American Nurses in Serbia During the First World War

Summary/Abstract: The importance of the American Red Cross humanitarian activities in Serbia during WWI is well known. The aim of this paper is to further consider American relief work in Serbia, mainly based on a number of reports made by American nurses who stayed in Serbia at the beginning of WWI. American doctors and nurses had a prominent place in the evacuation and reoccupation of Belgrade in 1915. The role of nurses during WWI was somehow neglect ed in historiography. Still, their letters, reports and diaries provide a unique research material. They pictured war surgery and war nursing with terrible reality. American nurses perceived Serbia as a land of peasant soldiers, which was ravaged during the previous wars of 1912–1913, without any chance of renewal. Texts dedicated to Serbia were mostly written with great affection, representing it as a country in need of the United States’ help for survival. Un sanitary conditions and extreme poverty did not stop members of the American medical mission from performing an outstanding job of saving thousands of lives in Serbia during WWI.

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