A devoted nurse is a favorite among the wounded soldiers in her charge. Then everything changes with the arrival of a decorated, yet damaged, war hero. The nurse finds herself drawn to this tortured man, and the couple soon discovers a soul stirring passion that ultimately leads to violent tragedy
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Colleen McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales, working in hospitals in Sydney and London before moving to the Yale University Medical School to train as a nurse. There she wrote the phenomenal bestseller THE THORN BIRDS.
Leave's one's pulse racing New York TIMES A second bestseller The TIMES More intriguing, more provoking than THE THORN BIRDS Washington Post
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 317 pages. Cover worn, text tannedThe dutiful and disciplined Sister Honour Langtry has sole charge of Ward X o f a military hospital in the Pacific, where she cares for soldiers who have gone 'troppo' or are battle fatigued. War with Japan has only been over a few days w hen into this intense, confined world comes a new patient, Sergeant Michael Wils on. Immediately, his arrival transforms Ward X into a pressure cooker of emotion leading inexorably to tragedy for Sister Honour Langtry, as she is torn between her duty to all her patients - and her love for one of them. Seller Inventory # 3197n
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 317 pages. The dutiful and disciplined Sister Honour Langtry has sole charge of Ward X o f a military hospital in the Pacific, where she cares for soldiers who have gone 'troppo' or are battle fatigued. War with Japan has only been over a few days w hen into this intense, confined world comes a new patient, Sergeant Michael Wils on. Immediately, his arrival transforms Ward X into a pressure cooker of emotion leading inexorably to tragedy for Sister Honour Langtry, as she is torn between her duty to all her patients - and her love for one of them. Seller Inventory # 6174t
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 317 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper & Row, Australia, 1982. First Paperback Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The mental ward of a military hospital on a tropical Indo-Pacific island at the end of World War II is the setting for Colleen McCullough's eagerly awaited new novel. Ward-X is a self-contained world for its five remaining patients and their nurse, Honour Langtry. Not only is it physically isolated; the type of illness it harbours sets it apart from the rest of the hospital. For Ward X is the "troppo" ward, its inmates soldiers who have broken under the stresses of jungle warfare. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Action & Adventure; ISBN: 0063120607. ISBN/EAN: 9780063120600. Inventory No: 19110350. Seller Inventory # 19110350
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