You'll be sorry! : how World War II changed women's lives / Ann Howard ; [foreword by Margaret Whitlam].
Publisher: Newport, NSW, Australia Big Sky Publishing, 1990Description: 371 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925275841 (paperback)
- You will be sorry!
- Australia. Army. Australian Women's Army Service -- History
- Australia. Army. Royal Australian Corps of Signals
- Oranje (Ship)
- Australia. Australian Army. Royal Australian Corps of Signals
- Australia. Australian Army. Australian Women's Army Service -- History
- Australia. Australian Army. Australian Women's Army Service
- Australia. Australian Army. Royal Australian Corps of Signals
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian
- Women soldiers
- Regimental histories
- Military participation -- Female
- Women soldiers -- Australia -- History
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Australia
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- Australia
- 940.541294
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 940.541294 HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for loan to members and ILL | Signed by author | 67565 |
Includes bibliographical references, page 359.
Introduction -- Part I. You'll be sorry! -- Our chief concern is Australia's need -- Brownout -- Womanpower -- The formation of the AWAS -- Enlistment -- Uniformly good -- AWAS on the long, long, trail -- Nice guests bring their own butter -- Physical education -- War brides and war babies -- RTO Central Station -- Keeping the supplies coming down -- Hush-hush work -- What soldiers prefer -- The AWAS are doing splendidly -- Terror at Cowra -- Railway Square, Sydney -- The Australian Women's Weekly Club for servicewomen -- The show must go on -- Mum's army -- Recreation -- Barrack beasties -- Just average intelligent girls -- Bandiana -- Women drivers -- Ambulance drivers -- Women man the coastal defences -- Signals -- Army education -- Striking the right note -- Searchlights -- One for the record -- Against the Geneva Convention -- Some AWAS of note -- AWAS overseas -- Peace of mind -- Christmas -- Part II. Where do we go from here? -- The war is over -- Homecoming -- Demob -- Making do -- But what will I wear? -- Reuniting with loved ones -- Dealing with men's postwar trauma -- Drunkenness and divorce -- A housing crisis -- Marriage or career? -- Postwar training -- Women at work -- A lust for travel -- Back to living on the land -- Pensions, allowances and wages -- Picking up our lives again.
History of the Australian Women's Army Serivce and the largely unknown part that over 24,000 women played in the Australian Army during WW2.
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