A drama set on the battlefields of Europe as a global influenza pandemic looms.
Products specifications
Author
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Dr Hilary Jones |
Availability
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Available |
GBPPrice
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18.9900 |
A SWEEPING DRAMA SET ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE AS A GLOBAL INFLUENZA PANDEMIC LOOMS...\r\n\r\nFrontline 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.\r\n\r\nFrontline is the story of an aristocrats daughter who joins the war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she meets Will, a dockworkers 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.