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The secrets of the ANZACS: the untold story of venereal disease in the Australian Army, 1914-1919

Name: The secrets of the ANZACS: the untold story of venereal disease in the Australian Army, 1914-1919
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ISBN: 9781925113402

Großbritannien. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.;Dunbar, Raden

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This silent, secret scourge took hold in Cairo in 1914, and continued until 1919 when survivors of the war waited in Europe to be repatriated. Nobody wanted to know about it, at first and the general public back home was, of course, kept in the dark. Moralistic commanders in Egypt ordered strict punishments for men with VD, and the young victims were sent back to Australia in disgrace, most of them inventing amazing excuses for their inexplicable return. Many of them re-enlisted, but some felt they had to change their names to do so.

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Year:

2014

Edition:

1. publ

Publisher:

Scribe Publications

Language:

English

Pages:

XI, 274 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm