Physical description

Illustrated book with dustjacket. Book has a purple cover with the title and author's name embossed in silver on the spine. The dust jacket has the title printed in silver within a decorative border. Authors name is printed in black above this. Also on the front cover and extending across the spine and back cover is a coloured illustraion of

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At the bottom right of the front end-page is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by" Alfred Hospital Nurses League (handwritten in black ink) Also previous catalogue number handwritten in black ink on this sticker

Summary

A history of how Australian women have responded to war, from 1900 when the first nurses sailed to the Boer War, to 1045 and its aftermath