BLURB: "Ettie Rout fought a battle for safer sex in the First World War — and won. She gave New Zealand the best sexual health system when its army adopted her prophylactic kit and made every soldier going on leave take one — while she was banned from the pages of the newspapers so New Zealanders wouldn't find out. In Paris, having transformed Madame Yvonne's into a safer sex brothel, she met soldiers at the railway station and convinced them to go there if they chose to have sex."

A well researched and written biography on a much overlooked New Zealand war heroine. Ettie Rout was decades ahead of her time. Loved by our World War I soldiers and known as the 'guardian angel of the Anzac's', Ettie was the world's first great public health campaigner. This biography does much to highlight her interesting life and massive achievements which should be an integral part in any book written on New Zealand and World War I. Well worth a read. ( )