BookBrowse Reviews The Women by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah's latest historical epic, The Women, is a story of how a war shaped a generation and a tribute to all the women who served in the Vietnam War. Hannah tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, who, at the age of 20 in 1966, joins the Army Nurse Corps, inspired by a family friend's assertion that women can be heroes, too. After a hopeful, patriotic start, readers are thrown right into the action—bloody uniforms, gaping chest wounds, dying men screaming for their mothers as bombs fall overhead—allowing them to empathize with Frankie's chaotic entry into combat nursing. As soon as Frankie arrives in the war zone, she is repeatedly sent to take care of men suffering from some of the worst injuries imaginable. Although she's wildly unprepared, Frankie does what she can, knowing that even if her nursing skills can't save a man, ...