Anzac Girl

Subtitle: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King
By: Kate Simpson
Illustrated by: Jess Racklyeft
Genre: YFY - True stories (Children's / Teenage)
Published by: A & U Children
Published: 3 Mar 2020
ISBN: 9781760637019

Description

 

It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate.

Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this story captures the danger, the heartache and the history of the young nurse who would one day become the most decorated woman in Australia.