The Other Anzacs by Peter Rees


Authors
Peter Rees
ISBN
9781741755497
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Dimensions
163 x 240 x 41mm

The harrowing and dramatic stories of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War.

Absorbing wonderful inspiring.' - Peter FitzSimons

I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted it I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown off and had landed on the patient's bed. The next day they found the trunk about 20 yards away '

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 women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them.

They were there for the horrors of Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery the Western Front. Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had over 500 horrifically injured patients to tend on one crammed hospital ship, and scores of deaths on each of the harrowing days that followed. Every night was a nightmare. Their strength and humanity 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 enrich their experiences, and ours.

This is a very human story from a different era, when women had not long begun their quest for equality and won the vote. They were on the frontline of social change as well as war, and the hurdles they had to overcome and the price they paid, personally and professionally, make them a unique group in Anzac history.

Profoundly moving, The Other Anzacs is story of extraordinary compassion and courage shown by a group of Australian and New Zealand women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed our understanding of that history forever.
March Book Frenzy (Online Only)
39.96
RRP: $49.95
20% off RRP


This product is unable to be ordered online. Please check in-store availability.
Instore Price: $49.95
Enter your Postcode or Suburb to view availability and delivery times.

Other Titles by Peter Rees

Lancaster Men
24.99
19.99
20% Off
I Am Tim
40.00
32.00
20% Off
Killing Juanita
27.99
22.39
20% Off
Lancaster Men
32.99
16.00
52% Off
Inside the Vault
29.99
23.99
20% Off
The Anzac Girls
29.99
16.00
47% Off
The Anzac Girls
24.99
19.99
20% Off
The Missing Man
34.99
27.99
20% Off

You might also like

The Choice
29.99
16.00
47% Off
Big Week
35.00
16.00
54% Off
SAS Band Of Brothers
24.99
9.99
60% Off
His Finest Hour
19.99
9.99
50% Off
Mans Search For Meaning
16.99
13.59
20% Off
Victory In Europe 194445
39.99
14.99
63% Off
The Gestapo
by Frank Mcdonough
19.99
9.99
50% Off
The Greatest Raid
35.00
14.99
57% Off
Mein Kampf
59.99
47.99
20% Off
Conspiracies Of World War II
19.99
12.99
35% Off
Mans Search For Meaning
24.99
19.99
20% Off
Lancaster Men
32.99
16.00
52% Off

RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.