THE NIGHTINGALE BY KRISTIN HANNAH

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" WOMEN GET ON WITH IT. FOR US IT WAS A SHADOW WAR. THERE WERE NO PARADES FOR US WHEN IT WAS OVER, NO MEDALS OR MENTIONS IN HISTORY BOOKS. WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DURING THE WAR, AND WHEN IT WAS OVER, WE PICKED UP THE PIECES AND STARTED OUR LIVES OVER. "

" IN LOVE WE FIND OUT WHAT WE WANT TO BE;
   IN WAR, WE FIND OUT WHO WE ARE. " 




Why is that whenever war heroes are mentioned, our minds conveniently ONLY imagine men in uniforms fighting and bombing each other?? ( I have stressed the “only” here because soldiers who lost their lives fighting in the battlefield are undoubtedly heroes already. Am just trying to make a point about the women in war here).


Why is it that women who had worked in the forefront silently not strike us as war heroes??

What about the women who were rebels and put on a brave face against the enemies?

What about those women saving the lives of others while putting their own at stake?


What about those women who endured the Germans sharing their homes forcefully, eating from their kitchens and violating their bodies, just because they could not stand their strong soul and heart?


And aren’t those women who couldn’t do any of these but still put up a strong fight to survive the atrocious circumstances heroes as well?


The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is a wonderful depiction of women in war.


It narrates the courageous story of the Rossignol sisters who fought the world war 2 in their own ways when the Germans captured France.

I do not want to give away too much about this book.

This is all about the struggle of women in war.


PROS : the story is beautifully narrated so that when reading the book, the visuals flow smoothly in front of us.

Depicts the struggle of women and how their heroics are overseen without giving the credit they deserve.

A must read book!!!

CONS : absolutely none.


My review : 5/5.


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