Always The Children

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Anne Watts grew up in a small village in north Wales in the 1940s. Inspired by school geography lessons that told of far-off lands she broke out of the conventional options open to women in post-war Britain defying her Merchant Navy father's dated views. She trained as a nurse & midwife joined the Save the Children Fund & was posted to Vietnam in 1967. One of only three British nurses in the region Anne was faced with a vision of hell that her training at Manchester's Royal Infirmary had barely prepared her for. Thrown in at the deep end she witnessed the random cruelty of warfare nursing injured & orphaned children & caring for wounded & dying servicemen. She went on to take her skills to the victims of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to Lebanon during the Israeli occupation & Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. Over some forty-five years Anne has brought her courage & compassion to those most in need of help. Woven into this vivid compelling memoir is perhaps the most moving story of all
- how Anne's idyllic childhood was shattered by a shocking family tragedy when she was 10 years old. A tragedy that was to shape her destiny.