Authors: Anna Rogers
ISBN-13: 9781869403010, ISBN-10: 1869403010
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
These moving accounts of the New Zealand nurses who served their country during wartime shed light on the dangers they faced and the bravery they exhibited in South Africa from 1899 to 1902, in the wars from 1914 to 1918, in Spain during the Civil War, and in a far-flung variety of countries from 1939 to 1948. Drawing on diaries, letters, and interviews, this book focuses on the personal experiences of individual nurses and their memories. The result is a fascinating picture of the adaptability, practicality, sensitivity, sense of humor, and strength of these women.
About the Author:
Anna Rogers is the author of Turning the Pages, Write and Be Published, Earthquakes, and A Lucky Landing. She is the former editor of the New Zealand Listener and Booksellers News.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Against the Odds: New Zealand nurses in South Africa | 12 |
2 | A Phantom Unit: the Nursing Service saga begins | 32 |
3 | 'I Felt We Would Never Get On': the formation of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service | 45 |
4 | Fifty for the Front: The first NZANS contingent departs | 60 |
5 | The Maheno and the Marama: nursing on the hospital ships | 73 |
6 | Death at Sea: the sinking of the Marquette | 94 |
7 | Somewhere in France: serving on the Western Front | 116 |
8 | Homes Away from Home: New Zealand war hospitals in England | 135 |
9 | Other Places, Other Services: working beyond the NZANS | 153 |
10 | After the Armistice: the problems of peace | 175 |
11 | In a Good Cause: the Spanish Civil War | 189 |
12 | Heat and Dust: nursing in the desert | 197 |
13 | 'An Arduous and Frankly Dangerous Trip': the retreat from Greece and Crete | 223 |
14 | A Grim Gampaign: the New Zealand hospitals in Italy | 234 |
15 | Sisters in All But Name? The role of the VAs | 250 |
16 | Bringing the Boys Home: nursing on the hospital ships | 266 |
17 | Across the Sea: serving in the Pacific and Japan | 282 |
18 | Faraway Places: New Zealand nurses in other services | 300 |
Epilogue | 319 | |
Notes | 325 | |
Bibliography | 338 | |
Index | 344 |