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Frontline: The sweeping WWI drama that 'deserves to be read' - Jeffrey Archer
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Frontline: The sweeping WWI drama that 'deserves to be read' - Jeffrey Archer
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Hilary Jones
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:464 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Historical romance Historical fiction |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781787397675
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Classifications | Dewey:823.92 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Welbeck Publishing Group
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Imprint |
Welbeck
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Publication Date |
12 May 2022 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a prominent British medical family in the twentieth century. 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 illness that soldiers are referring to as the 'Spanish flu'. 'The doctor hits the spot and deserves to be read.' - Jeffrey Archer
Author Biography
Dr Hilary Jones is a General Practitioner and regular contributor to multiple newspapers and television shows. He is a well-known and trusted face to millions in the UK.
Reviews'The doctor hits the spot and deserves to be read' -- Jeffrey Archer 'My diagnosis is that Frontline is a story to get the heart racing' * Daily Express * 'An enthralling tale and Jones' medical expertise never gets in the way of the action' * Daily Mirror * 'Dr Hilary is a master storyteller, and Frontline is an utterly absorbing page-turner' -- Lorraine Kelly, CBE 'Frontline succeeded where (Sebastian Faulks') Birdsong failed; in actually making me cry' * National Federation of Pensioners magazine. * 'This is an ambitious, sweeping epic of a story, visceral in its descriptions, and written with great insight and empathy' * Historical Novel Society *
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