Looking for a book about WWI Nurses?
These are just some of the books I have come across.
Some are out of print but you could try www.abebooks.com a world wide list of second hand bookshops
(remebering that the price is in US dollars - convert to Australian.
Alternatively you could order a copy through your local library who may be able to source an intra-library loan for you if they do not hold a copy.
And for those who like ebay or gumtree these are great places to pick a copy up - but beware of auctions as the price can be rather high at times - do your homework with prices and postage!!!
Some are out of print but you could try www.abebooks.com a world wide list of second hand bookshops
(remebering that the price is in US dollars - convert to Australian.
Alternatively you could order a copy through your local library who may be able to source an intra-library loan for you if they do not hold a copy.
And for those who like ebay or gumtree these are great places to pick a copy up - but beware of auctions as the price can be rather high at times - do your homework with prices and postage!!!
Good biography of an Australian pioneer in the cause of nursing. Regarded in her time as 'the Nurses' Statesman".
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The story of Sister Julia Bligh Johnston and her nursing colleagues of the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War One and their service on the Western Front.
ISBN: 0646459848 |
Illustrated laminated boards. Signed by the author. 280 pages with b/w photos. A detailed description of the part played by Queensland nurses in the Boer war, WW1, WW2, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Publisher: Boolarong Publications, 1985 ISBN 10: 0908175949 ISBN 13: 9780908175949 Hardcover |
Experiences of an Australian Army Nursing Sister in WWI.
Published by Angus & Robertson Sydney 1934 (1934) |
120 pages, Minister's Message -- The Honourable Bruce Scott, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, glossary, introduction and roll of honour. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography and black-and-white illustrations illustrations. Photographic front cover, showing number 74 camp hospital, Catherine, Northern Territory 1945, against a pink background with black and white titles to the front panel and black to the back strip. A little rubbing and scuffing to the book corners and to the head and to the heel of the back strip. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the title page.
Publisher: Commonwealth Department of Veterans Affairs, 1999 ISBN 10: 064241484X ISBN 13: 9780642414847 Softcover |
220 x 144 mm. Language: English Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology. They came to be seen as self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatant and doctors handmaidens, rather than being appreciated as trained professionals performing significant work in their own right. Christine Hallett challenges these myths to reveal the true story of allied nursing in the First World War - one which is both more complex and more absorbing. Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, Veiled Warriors offers a compelling account of nurses wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. Nurses believed they were involved in a multi-layered battle. Primarily, they were fighting for the lives of their patients on the second battlefield of casualty clearing stations, transports, and military hospitals. Beyond this, they were an integral component of the allied military machine, putting their own lives at risk in field hospitals close to the front lines, on board hospital ships vulnerable to enemy submarine attack, and in base hospitals subject to heavy bombardment. As working women in a sometimes hostile, chauvinistic world, allied nurses were also fighting to gain recognition for their profession and political rights for their sex. For them, military nursing might help to win not only the war itself, but also a more powerful voice for women in the post-war world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN 10: 0198703694 ISBN 13: 9780198703693 Hardcover |
This story covers British heroine Nurse Edith Cavell s time in Belgium during the First World War. It details Nurse Simonne Alpen s time in France and Belgium during both wars and that of her Australian husband, George Alpen, a British spy. Following the Second World War their son Cecil Paul Alpen became a distinguished Australian Diplomat.
Publisher: lulu.com, 2015 ISBN 10: 1329152654 ISBN 13: 9781329152656 Softcover |
A W, Sydney, 2004. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine. First Edition. In this inspiring book, Susanna de Vries profiles the love, dedication and selflessness of eleven outstanding women over the course of two world wars: from Olive Kin, who saved countless lives in the war-ravaged Balkans, although she lost her heart; to Gallipoli nurse Alice Kitchen, who also served in France; to Vivian Bullwinkel, who survived the Bangka Island Massacre only to face more than three years watching her colleagues die as Japanese prisoners of war. Facing not only the astounding courage they displayed amid death and chaos but also on the triumphs and pain of their personal lives, Susanna reveals how these women were as influential and heroic in civil life as they were in war. Size: Octavo (standard book size).
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2011. Hardcover. 110mm x 178mm x. Hardcover. More than Bombs and Bandages exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris' CEW Bean Prize winning PhD thesis. ISBN/EAN: 9780980814057
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Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1989, 1989. hard cover, blue cloth, dust jacket, 205pp including index, bibliography, notes and appendix : roll of nurses, black and white photographs and illustrations, ISBN 0043100244.
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Please note this book has now been republished under the title of 'Anzac Girls'
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.
Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2008. 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN 978 1 74237 118 4 |
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.
Published by Allen & Unwin, 2014 ISBN 10: 1743319827 / ISBN 13: 9781743319826 |
2013. 155mm x 235mm x. Paperback. Australian Heroines of World War One is the story of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, original photos, paintings and maps. ISBN 978-0-9806216-4-8
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Oxford, Melbourne, 1992.small 4to in d/w, plates, index, biblio, source notes, pp261, A focus on the 9,000 who served as Army nurses from the Boer War to the Gulf War. An excellent account of our Nurses at war ISBN 0 19 553380 1
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Short Description for Queenie, Letters from an Australian Army Nurse, 1915-1917
Queenie is the evocative, moving and at times entertaining story, told through her letters home, of a young Army nurse's perceptions of the events, people and places she experienced during the cataclysmic years of the First World War. Queensland's youngest hospital matron at the age of 25, Gympie-born Edith Florence Avenell, usually known by her nickname Queenie, enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service the day after the ANZAC troops of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli. Full description
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OCEANS OF LOVE
Narelle - An Australian Nurse in World War 1 by Melanie Oppenheimer Soft cover 272 pages Indexed ISBN 10: 0 7333 1710 3 Text and illus.are in sepia. In her mid thirties, nursing sister Narrelle Hobbes left Australia and travelled to London to join Queen Alexandra`s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, she went on to deal with the wounded in World War 1 in various countries, the author uses Narrelle`s letters and photographs to trace one woman`s extraordinary journey through the exhilaration and tragedy of the war to end all wars. |
Beyond the Call - The story of Australia's First World War Nurses with further chapters relative to the war.
Author: Deacon, Lindsay A Condition: Near MInt Edition: 1st Edition ISBN: 1876261102 Publication Date: 2001 Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket -100 pages Comments: A short but detailed history of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps during World War One. An account of dedication and bravery by Australian Nurses in the First World War. |
The Forgotten Women
by G Robinson Published 1989 Soft Cover 146 page ISBN 0646133543 The personal accounts of Australian Nurses abroad during World War I |
Australian Down Syndrome Association, Adelaide, 1991. Softcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust The story of a young nursing sister in World War I told to her letters and diaries. Personal documents such as these, even when not sufficiently backgrounded to provide an overall view of the wall, and a startling immediacy that eliminates the horrors of war and the quiet heroism of the participants. Sister Olive Creswell Haynes's story has been compiled and edited by her daughter, Margaret Young who tells of a young woman who left a secure social position in Adelaide in 1914 to service in nursing sister to what she believed would be a minor skirmish that would end quickly.. ISBN: 0646038737. ISBN/EAN: 9780646038735.
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2012. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 135mm x 210mm x. Paperback. Inspired by diaries, letters and post war writings The Girls in Grey tells the stories of three Australian Army nurses during World War 1.
48 page ISBN: 0868199427 / 0-86819-942-7 |
