The other Anzacs : the extraordinary story of our World War I nurses / Peter Rees.
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TextPublication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2009Description: xviii, 363 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781742371184Subject(s): Australia. Army -- Nurses | Military nursing -- Australia | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Female | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Australia | Women in warDDC classification: 940.47594 LOC classification: UH495.A8 | R448 2009Summary: AU Author. By the end of the Great War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over 200 had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. They were there for the horrors of Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery of the Western Front. Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had over 500 horrifically injured patients to tend to on one crammed hospital ship, and scores of deaths on each of the harrowing days that followed. Every night was a nightmare. Their strength and humanity 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 battle fronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to enrich their experiences and ours.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 342-346.
AU Author. By the end of the Great War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over 200 had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. They were there for the horrors of Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery of the Western Front. Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had over 500 horrifically injured patients to tend to on one crammed hospital ship, and scores of deaths on each of the harrowing days that followed. Every night was a nightmare. Their strength and humanity 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 battle fronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to enrich their experiences and ours.
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