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And women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old Frankie McGrath, training to be a nurse, hears these words, it's a real revelation to her. Growing up in the sun-bathed idyll of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. And when her brother left to serve in Vietnam, she joined the Army Nurse Corps to follow in his path.
Naive and inexperienced, like the men sent to fight in Vietnam, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Every day is a bet of life and death, of hope and betrayal.
But the war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle is when you return home, where nothing is the same.
This is the story of a woman who went to war, but it is also about the fates of all women who put themselves in harm's way and whose sacrifices and dedication to country are too often forgotten. A novel of deep friendships, with a memorable heroine whose idealism defined an entire era.
„Never before has a novel about war become such a profound story about the human heart. The female heart. Christine Hannah is one of the best writers of our time.“-Dilia Owens, author of Where Crabs Sing„