The daughters of Mars / Thomas Keneally
2012, 1st Edition 2nd Impression. London: Sceptre. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, not price clipped, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: signed. Item #337824
Physical description: 519 pages; 24 cm. Summary: "In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, longing for new horizons. Nothing could have prepared them for the carnage they confront in the Old World, first in the Dardanelles, then on the Western Front. Yet they find courage in the face of extreme danger and become the friends they never were before. And eventually they meet the kind of men worth giving up their precious independence for--if only they survive"--Page 4 of cover. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918. Nurses. Nursing. World War, 1914-1918; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Women; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Medical care Australia; Fiction. 21st Century fiction. Genre: Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.
Price: €65.00