| Description |
397 pages ; 21 cm |
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"A novel"--Cover. |
| Summary |
August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle. Ruth and Elise Duncan long to escape the roles that society, and their controlling father, demand they play. Together, the sisters volunteer for the war effort, Ruth as a nurse, Elise as a driver. Stationed at a makeshift hospital in Ypres, Belgium, Ruth soon confronts war's harshest lesson: not everyone can be saved. Rising above the appalling conditions, she seizes an opportunity to realize her dream to practice medicine as a doctor. Elise, an accomplished mechanic, finds purpose and an unexpected kinship within the all-female Ambulance Corps. Through bombings, heartache, and loss, Ruth and Elise cherish an independence rarely granted to women, unaware that their greatest challenges are still to come. |
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Sisters -- Fiction.
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Voluntarism -- Fiction.
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Nurses -- Fiction.
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Ambulance drivers -- Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States -- Fiction.
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Women in war -- Fiction.
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Americans -- Belgium -- Fiction.
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Belgium -- Fiction.
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Belgium -- History -- German occupation, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780778311225 |
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0778311228 |
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