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The Anzac Girls

The extraordinary story of our World War I nurses
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The Anzac Girls by Peter Rees tells the compelling story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served during World War I. Drawn from diaries and letters, the book gives an intimate glimpse into their bravery, resilience, and compassion in the face of adversity, highlighting their significant yet often overlooked contribution to wartime efforts.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in the remarkable, true stories of courage and resilience displayed by the nurses who served during World War I. This fascinating biography delves into the lives of these extraordinary women, providing insight into their experiences on the frontline and highlighting their vital contributions to history and wartime medicine.

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The Anzac Girls

The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series.

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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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760293291

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 March 2016

Country: Australia

Imprint: Allen & Unwin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 424g

Pages: 384

About the Author

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.

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