Author Kristin Hannah's new novel "The Women" tells a story about a nation divided against itself. The book is about an army nurse in Vietnam who experiences both the horror of the war in Southeast ...
“The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah says of her earliest inspiration for her new novel, “The Women.” “My friends’ fathers were serving, and in fact, my best friend’s father ...
Over 265,000 American women served in the military during the Vietnam War, including 11,000 in Vietnam. Women’s History Month officially takes place in March, but that doesn’t mean that one must ...
The idea to write about nurses in combat zones in the Vietnam War came easy, novelist Kristin Hannah says. The writing? Not so much. “The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah ...
Kristin Hannah was in elementary and middle school during the Vietnam War. The father of one of her close girlfriends was a pilot whose plane was shot down, and Hannah started wearing his POW bracelet ...
Kristin Hannah has been a juggernaut for three decades, crafting more than two-dozen historical fictions about women defining themselves during eventful times. Hannah’s publisher printed a million ...
For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the guns of the Vietnam War, they did not still the legacy of atrocities on all sides nor the record of leaders’ ...
BIANNA GOLODRYGA, SENIOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, now, as we’ve discussed, international pressure is ramping up on Israel, and the U.S. students are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and transparency ...