TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hannah, Kristin,
TI  - The women
SN  - 9781035005680
AV  - PS3558.A4763 W66 2024
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20240225
PY  - 2024///.
CY  - London : 
PB  - Macmillan, 
KW  - Nurses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Psychic trauma
KW  - War fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America. Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause. The Women is the story of one woman who goes to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm's way to help others. Women whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has been all too often forgotten
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