Australian Women And War

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Commonwealth Of Australia
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 270 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Sourced from Oppenheimers own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.

ISBN: 9781877007286