Anzac girls : the extraordinary story of our World War I nurses / Peter Rees.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2014Copyright date: ©2008Description: xviii, 363 pages, 48 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781743319826 (paperback)Subject(s): New Zealand. Army -- Nurses | New Zealand. Army. New Zealand Army Nursing Service | Australia. Army -- Nurses | Australia. Army. Australian Army Nursing Service | Australia. Australian Army. Australian Army Nursing Service | Australia. Army -- Nurses | Australia. Army -- Nurses | Australia. Army -- Nurses | Australia. Army -- Nurses | Australia. Army -- Nurses | Australia. Army. Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps | Australia. Army. Australian Army Nursing Service | Australia. Australian Army -- Nurses | Nurses -- New Zealand -- Biography | Nurses -- New Zealand -- History | Military nursing -- New Zealand -- History | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- New Zealand | Nurses -- Australia -- Biography | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Female | Nurses -- Australia -- History | Military nursing -- Australia -- History | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- AustraliaDDC classification: 940.47594 LOC classification: RT37.L45Summary: 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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