Physical description

Gloss hard cover, no book jacket with illustration of ships under attack

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

"To the Returned Nurses' Club / With best wishes from the author. / Rupert Goodman / 20 May 1992" [Handwritten on front page inside front cover]
"B118 / 202406.045" [Pencil top right hand corner of inside page of front cover]
"RETURNED AND SERVICES NURSES / CLUB OF VIC SUB BRANCH R.S.L." [Stamp on front page inside front cover, top, centre]
[Invitation to the launch of this book is glued to the inside of the front cover]

Summary

Tracing the history of hospital ships from the Spanish Armada to the Gulf War, but with special and detailed reference to the Australian hospital ships in World War II: Manunda, Wanganella, Centaur and Oranje. [Trove]