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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...

"In London, 1939, Ada Vaughan is a young woman with an unusual dressmaking skill, and dreams of a better life for herself. That life seems to arrive when Stanislaus, an Austrian aristocrat, sweeps Ada off her feet and brings her to Paris. When war breaksout, Stanislaus vanishes, and Ada is taken prisoner by the Germans, she must do everything she can to survive: by becoming dressmaker to the Nazi wives. Abandoned and alone as war rages, the choices...

August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle. Ruth and Elise Duncan long to escape the roles that society, and their controlling father, demand they play. Together, the sisters volunteer for the war effort, Ruth as a nurse, Elise as a driver. Stationed at a makeshift hospital in Ypres, Belgium, Ruth soon confronts war's harshest lesson:...

"Dwie siostry, Isabelle i Vianne, dzieli wszystko: wiek, okoliczności ,w jakich przyszło im dorastać, i doświadczenia. Kiedy w 1940 roku do Francji wkracza armia niemiecka, każda z nich rozpoczyna własną niebezpieczną drogę do przetrwania, miłości i wolności. Zbuntowana Isabelle dołącza do ruchu oporu, nie zważając na śmiertelne niebezpieczeństwo, jakie ściąga na całą rodzinę. Opuszczona przez zmobilizowanego męża Vianne musi...