A masterful historical fiction writer with insight into the wonderful group of young women known as the Smith College Women who set up shop to help WWI.
They form what's being termed the Smith College Relief Fund to aid these two female doctors with medicine and supplies while in route to France during 1917 on the front lines.
The terror that everyone faced was pure evil, wicked, and an absolute hell to absorb.
Yet, Willig defines the extraordinary lengths and hardships that these women endured throughout the turmoil and beyond into their own personal lives with clarity, precision, and magnificence.
Weddings to be had, memories to be made, love to be shared. So much was at stake.
They performed with courage, dignity, grace, and a fierce sense of loyalty in assisting the German villagers forgetting about their own perils and lives being at stake.
Band of Sisters seeds were planted during the author's extensive research of the historical time and she's brought to us a magnificent accounting of the action with authority, splendid richly crafted detail, and superb writing.
These eighteen women -The Smith College Alumni Women- are truly a sight to behold.
If only empathy and compassion existed in today's world-what a wonderful world it would be.
Although many of the characters were exaggerated the events were not.
To think it all began with a speech, with letters being written between Kate and Emmie, with a calling that couldn't be denied even with a busy college life on hand.
Can you just imagine learning to build your own vehicles or better libraries full scale? Can you imagine having to supply food and medicine to an entire village under these excruciating element during a war?
The tenacity lives on with this book and I'm so glad I was awarded this early ARC in exchange for this honest review.
I truly hope you welcome this one with open arms too!
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