The Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story Of Our World War I Nurses

Author: Peter Rees

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  • : December 2015
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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. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to shine through and enrich 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.

Author description

Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), Killing Juanita: A true story of murder and corruption (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, Desert Boys and Lancaster Men (2013). He lives in Canberra.

Table of contents

Author's note..Introduction..GALLIPOLI..1 The big adventure..2 Relative relations..3 Different rules..4 The prelude..5 Gallipoli..6 Blooded..7 Not much comfort to a mother..8 Heartily sick of it..9 The Kiwis arrive..10 None of the old smallness in it..11 Broken bodies..12 Tears in the dark..13 The shabby sisters..THE MARQUETTE..14 Alone in the Aegean..15 'We thought they would let us die!'..16 No time for mock modesty..17 The price of sacrifice..THE WESTERN FRONT..18 The first Anzac service..19 Waiting for Harry..20 Harry's letter..21 Grasping for hope..22 The chill of war..23 No place to hide..24 Bombs and basins..25 Desolation..26 Survival..27 Gifts for France..28 Conscription..29 It's something big, Sister..30 The struggle ends..31 The fifth New Year..32 The aftermath..Australian World War I nurses honour roll..New Zealand World War I nurses honour roll..Notes..Bibliography..Acknowledgements..Index