Author's note
Introduction
GALLIPOLI
1 The big adventure
2 Relative relations
3 Different rules
4 The prelude
5 Gallipoli
6 Blooded
7 Not much comfort to a mother
8 Heartily sick of it
9 The Kiwis arrive
10 None of the old smallness in it
11 Broken bodies
12 Tears in the dark
13 The shabby sisters
THE MARQUETTE
14 Alone in the Aegean
15 'We thought they would let us die!'
16 No time for mock modesty
17 The price of sacrifice
THE WESTERN FRONT
18 The first Anzac service
19 Waiting for Harry
20 Harry's letter
21 Grasping for hope
22 The chill of war
23 No place to hide
24 Bombs and basins
25 Desolation
26 Survival
27 Gifts for France
28 Conscription
29 It's something big, Sister
30 The struggle ends
31 The fifth New Year
32 The aftermath
Australian World War I nurses honour roll
New Zealand World War I nurses honour roll
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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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