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Anzac girls : the extraordinary story of our World War I nurses / Peter Rees.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2014, c2008.Description: xviii, 363 pages, 48 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781743319826 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.4759
LOC classification:
  • RT37.L45
Summary: 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.
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"The book that inspired the ABC1 TV series." --Cover.

First published as ""The other Anzacs" in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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