One Night In London — Lucilla Andrews

October 1944…St. Martha's Hospital…London… And while flying bombs and rockets pulverized London, the doctors and nurses of “Wally's” -- a ward well above ground level -- tried to keep everything functioning normally…coping with insufficient staff, overcrowding, inadequate rations, and the constant arrival of new air raid victims.

There was Mack, the Senior Surgical Officer, who had operated on twenty-three cases and had had two hours sleep -- and was also trying to cope with a deeply personal problem in his private life. And Nurse Carter, who looked like a dumb blonde but was anything but… There was Nurse Smith, the most brilliant student of her year, who found it more difficult than most to function in the nightmare of a wartime ward. There were the patients, the students, the night sisters and house surgeons all doing their utmost to keep Martha's working during ONE NIGHT IN LONDON…