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The Daughters of Mars is a 2012 novel by Australian novelist Tom Keneally. [1] Plot summary. Sally and Naomi Durance are two nurses from country New South Wales who are shipped to Egypt during World War I end up on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes, stationed in the Dardanelles.
Nov 24, 2012 · A dispassionate yet moving tale of how Australian nurses fought the Great War. The Daughters of Mars. by Thomas Keneally. Sceptre, 528pp, £18.99. The carnage produced by the battles of the...
Jun 1, 2012 · At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars brings World War I to vivid, concrete life from an unusual perspective. A searing and profoundly moving tale, it pays tribute to men and women of extraordinary moral resilience, even in the face of the incomprehensible horrors of modern war.
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May 5, 2016 · The Daughters of Mars is a wide-ranging epic that spans the length of the Great War, but what makes it different to other war fiction is its focus on what it was like to be a volunteer nurse far from home during a conflict we only ever seem to read about from a man’s perspective.
Aug 20, 2013 · The Daughters of Mars (the title refers to the Roman god of war) is the work of a master storyteller, sharing a tale that is simultaneously sprawling and intimate. The two Durance sisters,...
The Daughters of Mars, By Thomas Keneally. A triumphant novel about sibling rivalry, pain, guilt, self-esteem and the horrors of nursing the casualties of conflict
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Aug 20, 2013 · The Daughters of Mars. by Thomas Keneally. From the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List, the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters from Australia, both trained nurses, whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the first World War.
