Heroic Australian Women in War

De Vries, Susanna

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9781743158593: Heroic Australian Women in War

ISBN 10: 1743158599 ISBN 13: 9781743158593

Publisher: Bolinda Audio, 2013

In this inspiring book, Susanna de Vries profiles the love, dedication, and selflessness of eleven outstanding women over the course of two world wars: from Olive Kin, who saved countless lives in the war-ravaged Balkans, although she lost her heart; to Gallipoli nurse Alice Kitchen, who also served in France; to Vivian Bullwinkel, who survived the Bangka Island Massacre only to face more than three years watching her colleagues die as Japanese prisoners of war.

Facing not only the astounding courage they displayed amid death and chaos but also on the triumphs and pain of their personal lives, Susanna reveals how these women were as influential and heroic in civil life as they were in war.

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About the Author:

Susanna de Vries is an international author and former lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology. She writes full-time but also lectures to branches of the Australian Fine and Decorative Art Society. She speaks fluent Spanish and French and has lived and worked in London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Florence, Barcelona and Sydney but now lives in Brisbane and has nine grandchildren. Susanna's fourteen books have won her literary awards in Ireland and Britain, an Order of Australia for services to literature and a Winston Churchill Fellowship.

From AudioFile:

The role of women in the twentieth century's two world wars is not well known, and de Vries undertakes to tell part of the story through a group of Australian woman who went to great lengths to contribute to the war effort, at great risk to their lives and well-being. Beverley Dunn is a no-nonsense narrator. Overall, she puts forward an attitude of fortitude and conviction in the various accounts--and reveals glimpses of vulnerability and discouragement in some of the excerpts of letters and diaries that are sprinkled throughout. Dunn portrays these historic figures as ordinary woman who faced extraordinary circumstances with courage and strength of character. J.E.M. � AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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