Physical description

Hardback book with torn dust jacket. Dust jacket has colour illustrations of women wearing various clothing or uniforms associated with wartime.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'RETURNED NURSES CLUB OF VICTORIA / SUB BRANCH R.S.L.' [stamped in purple ink on various pages throughout publication]
'RETURNED NURSES' CLUB / AND R.S.L. SUB BRANCH / GIFT OF LILIAN RAE.' [Handwritten lower edge of page opposite title page]

Summary

Australian women at war is a history of how women have responded to war, from 1900, when the first nurses sailed to the Boer War, to 1945 and its aftermath. ... Patsy Adam-Smith enlisted as a VAD and served in orthopaedic hospitals in northern Australia. She knew thr comradeship and the heartbreak of war, and has spoken to enlisted and civilian women: the AWAS, WAAAF, WRANS, VADs, the nursing services, the Red Cross and all the women who worked, laughed, worried and prayed while Australia was at war. (excerpts from inside dustjacket)