The dutiful and disciplined Sister Honour Langtry has sole charge of Ward X of 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 when into this intense, confined world comes a new patient, Sergeant Michael Wilson. 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...
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Leave's one's pulse racing (New York TIMES)
A second bestseller (The TIMES)
More intriguing, more provoking than THE THORN BIRDS (Washington Post)
* Reissue of a tragic World War 2 romance by the phenomenally bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS.
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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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