Heroic Australian Women In War
By (Author) Susanna De Vries
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
31st March 2004
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
920.72
Paperback
322
Width 160mm, Height 235mm, Spine 20mm
508g
A riveting new work of Susanna de Vries continuing astonishing stories of female bravery from Gallipoli to Kokoda.
Susanna de Vries is the author more than 15 books, most about women in history, including Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates, Great Pioneer Women of the Outback, Heroic Australian Women in War and To Hell and Back. Her bookBlue Ribbons, Bitter Bread: The Life of Joice NanKivell Loch, an acclaimed biography of Australia's most decorated woman, won Ireland's Sligo Non-fiction Prize and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction Award. An art historian by training, Susanna was made a Member of the order of Australia in 1996 for services to art and literature.