ANZAC Girls: The Extraordinary Story of our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside page. Borrower card pocket on insde back cover. Body text and binding are still very good.

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, seeking adventure and romance, but were soon confronted with challenges their civilian lives could never have prepared them for. Their strength and dignity were remarkable.

Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps, the wards, and the tent surgeries on the edges of some of the most horrific battlefronts in human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to shine through, enriching our experience.

Profoundly moving, ANZAC Girls is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever.

All profits from the sale of this book go to the Bunbury RSL.