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(0)Hilary Jones
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Publisher
Welbeck
Description
Hilary Jones's sequel to 'Frontline' chronicles some of the defining events of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of a preeminent medical family. The 1918 Armistice has ended the war in Europe. But, as the 1920s roars to life, it is an age of social change, excess, shellshock and ghosts.
2) Frontline
Author
Publisher
Welbeck
Description
From wars to a pandemic, the discovery of penicillin to the birth of the NHS, successive generations of the Burnett family are at the vanguard of life-saving developments in medicine. 'Frontline' is the story of an aristocrat's daughter who joins the war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she meets Will, a dockworker's son serving as a stretcher-bearer. As rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so too does a mysterious respiratory...