Daughters of Mars, (Paperback)

from rainpebble

The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally; (4*) Thomas Keneally writes with emotional tension across the years and gender divide. This is a wonderfully good story. It is well told but really not a story so much about the great wound inflicted on the world by mad men in 1914 but the madness of men ...

from pennsylady

Australian sisters, Naomi and Sally Durance volunteer as nurses at the beginning of World War I. They will work as nurses in places ranging from Gallipoli to the Western Front. I found Keneally's account of WWI battlefield medicine fascinating. We see, through 2 obscure heroines, both the horrors...

from Donna828

I haven't read a war book quite like this one. Set during WWI, two sisters from Australia volunteer to become a part of the war effort by nursing the brave soldiers from their country as they fight in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Naomi and Sally were never close but their shared experiences made the...

from beckyhaase

I had a hard time getting used to the lack of commas and quotation marks in this tale of two sisters who nurse for Australia during World War I. Although slow and quite lengthy, the book held my interest with details of nursing under primitive conditions during war conditions. The most interestin...

from c.archer

The Daughters of Mars is a blockbuster of a historic novel on the order of those written by Ken Follett. The author, Mr. Keneally, has given us a most unique viewpoint on a lesser written about conflict, World War I. His novel is the story of two young sisters, both nurses, from Australia who bec...