ANZAC Girls - Peter Rees

Peter Rees

Category: Military

Narrator: Anna McGahan

Tags: Military, History

Anzac Girls The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses By: Peter Rees Narrated by: Anna McGahan Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 21-03-2016 Language: English Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd, 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., By the end of the Great War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over 200 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 compa