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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. The novel follows the sisters through that campaign and on to northern Europe.
The Daughters of Mars: Directed by Lewis Allen. With Ethel Barrymore, George Davis, Herbert Rawlinson, Otto Reichow. Three American spinster sisters, taken to Paris as children during the Civil War, refuse to let the Nazis drive them out of the city.
Aug 24, 2013 · Thomas Keneally's new novel, The Daughters of Mars, follows two Australian sisters who become nurses during World War I. Naomi and Sally Durance share a guilty secret, but they don't share...
May 5, 2016 · The Daughters of Mars, which was published in 2012, is a powerful novel about two sisters from rural NSW who are nurses during the Great War. I extracted it from my shelves to take with me on a recent trip to Abu Dhabi and found it the perfect holiday read.
Aug 16, 2013 · Holding together an occasionally rambling narrative are Naomi and Sally Durance, the daughters of a New South Wales dairy farmer. After both become nurses, the older and more...
The Daughters of Mars - Historical Novel Society. Written by Thomas Keneally. Review by Janet Hancock. The First World War has become a staple of recent fiction. Thomas Keneally, in this epic novel told from an Australian perspective, enables readers to see events through fresh eyes.
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,...
