The Women: A Novel (Hardcover)
The Women: A Novel (Hardcover)
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The Women: A Novel (Hardcover)

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  • Author: Kristin Hannah
  • ISBN: 9781250178633
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Publication Date: 2/06/2024
  • Bestseller Status: #1 on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times
  • Coming-of-Age Story: Follows twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath
  • Vietnam War Setting: Explores the chaos and destruction of war through the eyes of an Army Nurse Corps member
  • Post-War Challenges: Highlights the struggles of returning to a divided America and dealing with angry protesters
  • Theme of Heroism: Shines a light on the often-forgotten sacrifices and commitment of women in war
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May 20, 2025
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Fascinating

As a baby boomer, the Vietnam War was an important part of my young adulthood. Having lived through it and having two brothers serve in the military during that era, I really didn't want to read any more of it. This book however provided a view of what it was like for those who served in a medical capacity in Vietnam and the damaging after effects of that service.

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Feb 2, 2025
Deaun
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Endurance.

The story was a page turner. It took me back in time to my childhood during the war. So interesting to read of the women serving as nurses, unknown heroines, their journey of survival in Vietnam, and back home, in a bitter hostile country. I loved this book. Opened my eyes to yet another ugly side of that war and the endurance of those who served.

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Feb 20, 2025
Timothy
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Thank you Kristin Hannah!

If you lived through the late sixties and early seventies you'd know Hannah has captured those time in the little intimate moments of her story. It's easy to criticize the government in retrospect, but Hannah shows us that when you're living in the moment it's very easy to be swept away in a blind desire to "serve." Of course, the other side of that coin is that having experienced those times and suffered under the pall of doubt regarding your future (caused by the war and the selective service) one never again trusts their government and always and forever holds within them a resentment that we were lied to about the need for that war and then we were lied to about the execution of that war and worst of all we can now see that never was their any real intention on the part of our political leaders to WIN that war. It was a losing cause from the start and therein lies the real tragedy. Even though my "number" wasn't chosen in the draft lottery and I therefore was not called to serve (in 1972), I nevertheless still feel the hurt and anger and betrayal that Vietnam veterans must feel and that I'm sure fed into their collective PTSD. Unfortunately, like any horror of history, and like Faulkner said, the more things change the more they stay the same. Thank you Kristiin Hannah for writing it!

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