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.
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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), and Killing Juanita: A true story of murder and corruption (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, as well as Desert Boys: Australians at war from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein and Lancaster Men: The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command (2013). He lives in Canberra and is currently writing a biography of Charles Bean.
Author's noteIntroductionGALLIPOLI1 The big adventure2 Relative relations3 Different rules4 The prelude5 Gallipoli6 Blooded7 Not much comfort to a mother8 Heartily sick of it9 The Kiwis arrive10 None of the old smallness in it11 Broken bodies12 Tears in the dark13 The shabby sistersTHE MARQUETTE14 Alone in the Aegean15 'We thought they would let us die!'16 No time for mock modesty17 The price of sacrificeTHE WESTERN FRONT18 The first Anzac service19 Waiting for Harry20 Harry's letter21 Grasping for hope22 The chill of war23 No place to hide24 Bombs and basins25 Desolation26 Survival27 Gifts for France28 Conscription29 It's something big, Sister30 The struggle ends31 The fifth New Year32 The aftermathAustralian World War I nurses honour rollNew Zealand World War I nurses honour rollNotesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex
