The Women

by Kristin Hannah

Book Overview

A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250178630
• ISBN13: 9781250178633
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Best I’ve read in a LONG time. Easy Read.

I am not a very fast reader. I finished this book in TWO WEEKS!!! I couldn’t wait to get to the next chapter. I am fascinated with the 60’s decade and this book helped me understand it more. Highly recommend a “summer of ‘67” playlist for background music while you read this. Also, after having finished this novel, I am watching ALL the Nam documentaries & talking to my parents about it. They were SO misinformed at the time. Thank you, Mrs. Hannah, for this treasure and inspiring me to educate myself further on this painful war.

Amazing

Truly amazing. Learned a lot. Eye opening. Couldn't stop crying. My uncle served in Vietnam and I wish I asked him to tell me more stories before he passed a few years ago...but now I know a little more about what he endured. Must read.

Nope! Just nope!

I couldn't get into this book to save my life. It was like a long loop of the same day over and over. Couldn't finish it. Very disappointed

A Story that needed to be told

This book was amazing. I grew up during the Viet Nam war era and had no idea how women were ignored during that time. Without nurses, so many of our boys would not have made it home. While fiction, this book had a lot of truth in it. I highly recommend this book to anyone who was around during that horrible, senseless war.

So good!

This book is a 10 star book in my opinion. It needed to be told about the nurses in Viet Nam and what they went through during and after the war. The characters are fictional but the stories are true. I cried during some of it, Such a powerful story and so worth reading!

Masterpiece!

This is a masterpiece- in storytelling, in historical reporting and in literary enjoyment! Excellent!! Great for book clubs!

Kristin Hannah did it again! Read the entire book in 1 day!

Kristin Hannah did it again! Read the entire book in 1 day! Don't want to give the plot away but she brought the combat nurses that served in Vietnam the honor and respect they deserved along with ALL veterans who served shame on our government for marginalizing our veterans and making healing all the more difficult. Thank you Kristin Hannah for showing us what really happened. My great aunt who I'm named after was a nurse who served in Korea.

Child of a Vietnam Nurse - this book helped me understand mom even more

I picked up an author's copy while I was in D.C. for a reunion of Vietnam Combat Nurses. My mother is a retired combat nurse who served in Vietnam. After much lobbying, the U.S. government 30 years ago, acknowledged the presence of women in the war and allowed a memorial to be erected on the National Mall. These women were swept under the rug and not acknowledged as having served in Vietnam, and this book is powerful in capturing the strength of Vietnam nurses who were essentially left to their own devices to heal if they managed to survive and return home. Chilling and heartwarming.