Sligo nurse Ruth Ormsby’s journey through civil war Spain, culminating in her tragic death in May 1938, is most extensively recounted in the memoir of Catalan surgeon Moises Broggi, head of the groundbreaking medical unit in which she served. Interweaved with the stories of other Irish medics serving in Spain and those of her international brigade colleagues, Behind the Lines tells a very modern story of a warfare in which civilians and aid workers find themselves in the firing line.
