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Heroic Australian Women in War

Susanna de Vries Beverley Dunn Anna Burley

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English
ABC Audio
01 February 2015
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.

Focussing not only on 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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Imprint:   ABC Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 134mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   239g
ISBN:   9781486242580
ISBN 10:   1486242588
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

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. Beverley Dunn is one of Australia's most distinguished actresses. Her acclaimed work in theatre, television, radio and film has taken her all over Australia and overseas. Among her many television credits are two years in The Flying Doctors, and she also toured Australia for hit stage productions of Hotel Sorrento and A Happy and Holy Occasion, which won her a Green Room Award in 1993. She was also the narrator of White Eye by Blanche d'Alpuget, the 1994 TDK Australian Audio Book of the Year, and White Coolies by Betty Jeffrey, which was shortlisted at the Audie awards and won the Golden Ears award.

Reviews for Heroic Australian Women in War

'There is no reason why sound historical scholarship should not also be a rollicking good read ... de Vries is an engaging writer, and her retelling of the war service and postwar lives of her subjects make compelling reading.' -- The Canberra Times


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