The Anzac girls
Subtitle: the extraordinary story of our World War I nurses
By: Peter Rees
Edition: This edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781743319826
Subjects: Australia; World War, 1914-1918; Military nursing; Medical care; Female Participation; Nurses; Australia. Australian Army; Australia. Australian Army Nursing Service; History
Description: By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength and dignity were remarkable. Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps and the wards, and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gallipoli; title: The Marquette; title: The Western Front; title: Australian World War I nurses honour roll; title: New Zealand World War I nurses honour roll.