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From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.

But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.

The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm's way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C1X97LW7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press (February 6, 2024)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 6, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4366 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1035005689
Reviewer: MV
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Thrilling, captivating, heartbreaking
Review: I read this book in 3 days. I can hardly remember reading anything so quickly. The story and characters are so well described that you feel like you’re there with them in every minute. Part One feels like watching a war movie, gruesome and terrifying but honest and sacred.Part two was a little more difficult to read as I felt like it became a bit of a soap opera. You can’t possibly imagine more drama but then it comes. Somehow I guessed the ending, which I’ve never been able to do but it was still beautiful and so well written that I didn’t care. I’d definitely recommend! I just got back into reading again this year and I’m so glad I found Kristin Hannah’s books!

Reviewer: Jenny Wright
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Riveting tender heartwrenching Hopeful Must Read
Review: I could not put this book down . It was constantly in my thoughts, immersing me into the lives of American combat nurses’ doctors and soldiers selflessly serving in the jungles of Southeast Asia during a volatile era. The writing is vivid and brings the conflicting complex emotions surrounding the Viet Nam war into sharp relief. The characters are convincing and diverse. The book is well researched and bone chilling in its harrowing depiction of the trauma nurses suffered during war as well as the shame and humiliation they faced once they returned home---trauma compounding trauma.I agree with other readers that even if you are not a reader of historical fiction, this is a well-crafted compelling masterpiece that will draw you into unparalleled depths and breadths of compassion and understanding about these women and the vital role, they played saving and comforting military men serving in Viet Nam. ‘The ending was an outstanding stroke of hope and brilliance.. “The Women” is the best of the many notable books I’ve read this year. It left me with a burning urge to discuss with others who also loved this book.

Reviewer: Jojo4
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An exceptional look at a time most tried to forget. Especially the women.
Review: Hanna does an extraordinary job taking us into a time of drastic change and turmoil in America. Frankie's journey from her idealic country club childhood to being "in country" in Viet Nam is well told, believable and eye-opening at so many points. The pictures Hanna creates of friendship, heartache, unimaginable horror an joy are so well developed and intertwined. Thank you for remembering the lost women, the nurses who definitely fought in Viet name.

Reviewer: Lynn Young
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brave Women
Review: America has always portrayed itself as a country of advanced thinking, but the truth under its boasting is that , for the most part, if women were a reason to be proud, America ignored them. Hannah reveals this "critical gender theory" in her book about a nurse serving in Vietnam. Her main character is Frankie McGrath , a young woman who becomes an Army nurse in Vietnam. She believes she should serve her country in some way after her brother is killed in the war shortly after he enlists. She is hoping her mother and most importantly, her father will be proud of her. She gets the exact opposite reaction. They expected her to get married and have children. Her father has a "hero's wall" of family members who served in past wars. She can only be on that wall after she gets married, and the picture is her wedding picture, and it will be the only picture of her. The wall is symbolic of what society deemed was heroic and only men could be heroic in that way. There was only room for a woman if she married, became a housewife, and had children. While this choice is perfectly acceptable, it should not be perfectly binding as the only way for a woman to show her worth. Frankie is sure she belongs on that wall as a nurse who serves in the Army. Her parents disagree and tell their friends , when Frankie goes off to the war, thst she is studying abroad. But it isn't just her family whose narrow vision of Frankie affects her life. The Army itself has allowed societal rules to dictate how women are treated. Getting to Vietnam is no picnic for Frankie. While her fellow travelers are all men dressed in comfortable fatigues, she must travel in her blouse, tight green jacket, narrow, skirt, nylons held up by a regulation girdle (despite panty hose being available) , and heels. The life of a nurse in a war zone is dangerous, frightening, and traumatic. The war makes less and less sense to Frankie as she stuffs vital organs back into shredded chests and abdominal cavities, and helps doctors amputate more than one limb per patient. Frankie comes to realize with growing horror what is really going on in Vietnam, that America was losing that war, but didn't mind sacrificing more and more young men so that the government could save face. It is a rude awakening for her. When she returns home after two tours of duty, she is treated with disrespect by the public, the VA, and her parents. The country had been told that no women went to Vietnam, so Frankie could not have been there even though she so obviously was. That has always been the problem with woman who don't follow the rules society dictates. If they insist on showing how wrong headed that thinking is, society will just have to minimize them if not ignore them. Suffering from what is now recognized as PTSD, Frankie hits rock bottom before she is able, with the help of her nurse friends who also served, to find a way to survive. The Vietnam protests by the veterans themselves as well as everyone else who raised their voices, finally ended the war. Eventually, the government admitted that over 6,000 nurses,most of them women, served in Vietnam. Hannah's story is thoroughly researched. Her depiction of war torn Vietnam is riveting. One turns the pages to end the war as soon as possible. Frankie's struggles with the war and at home are realistic, heartbreaking, and deeply troubling, but they don't destroy her. She survived Vietnam, and she survives coming back home.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 100/10
Review: I'm still in recovery from the impact that this book has on me. It is a beautiful freiken masterpiece and one of the best books I've read. I almost threw up I was crying so hard at the end (I was trying to hold in my sobs because my husband was sleeping next to me. I didn't think I would enjoy itbecause it is not my typical genre but WOW... I'm also usually extremely critical with books having to do with nursing but she did an EXCELLENT job! At times it reminded me of the pandemic. A huge thank you to men AND women who serve this country and to all the nurses out there.This book takes us on a 20 year journey with Frances McGrath. Just out of nursing school at 20 years old, Frankie decides to enlist and follow her brother to Vietnam. All she wants is to make her parents proud and to be considered a hero. Afterall, women can be heroes too. However, her parents are highly conservative and are in the social spotlight so they do not think war is the right place for a young lady.Once in Vietnam she is thrown into the most horrid of situations all day every day. What she sees is traumatizing, heart breaking and life changing. She is fortunate to have roommates there who quickly become her best friends and life line. She learns what love is and what is most important in life.Upon her return home Frankie soon realizes she is not considered the war hero she thought she would be. Instead people are ashamed of her. She battles heartache, loss, addiction, depression and PTSD. She spends years battling with a country who is ashamed of her and does not treat her as a veteran. She is a woman home from war whose story needs to be heard. Bravo

Reviewer: telykv
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very good read. Kristin Hannah always brings out so much emotion in her books. As usual, you learn so much about a different aspect of the war.

Reviewer: Jessica
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Omg, Kristin Hannah is the best historical fiction author! This book had me hooked since the beginning and had me sobbing! It was heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. I loved this book

Reviewer: Helena Gurjão Pinheiro do Val
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I admit I'm not an emotional reader. It takes a lot me make me shed tears while reading, but the ending of this book was surprisinly emotional for me. I love reading historical novels, but I knew little about the Vietnam War and its outcomes to the soldiers and nurses who ventured in there in service. A really good book that like many other that I've been reading, show the forgotten role of women in wars that marked a whole generation.

Reviewer: Melissa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Before reading this book, I knew very little about the war in Vietnam, especially the women who fought in it. Kristen Hannah brings to light so much about this time period and the aftermath of the war and its effects on men and women who were drafted. I read it in a few days – it's one of those books where you love the characters so much you feel lost when you finish it. After The Nightingale, this is my favourite Kristen Hannah book.

Reviewer: Jenny BOHN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book held my interest from the first to the last page. Can thoroughly recommend.