Spreading Their Wings: New Zealand Waafs in Wartime

By Bee Dawson

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the idea of women working in the Armed Forces was considered quite radical, in spite of a long tradition of Army nurses. The first women of the WAAF were greeted with opposition and disapproval, but by the end of the war they had become respected members of the Armed Forces.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143019120
• ISBN13: 9780143019121
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 207 Pages