Big Kristin Hannah fan here. I read The Women a couple of months ago.
Everything you wrote about the book is absolutely true. I love the story interwoven with popular song references and changing of fashion and her agony of being misunderstood upon her return from deployment.
My only gripe about the whole book is that the helicopter silhouette on the cover appears to be a Soviet-made Mil Mi-8, a helicopter that our heroine Frankie would’ve had vanishingly rare contact with at the field hospitals where she was stationed in Vietnam because the Mil-8 was only just beginning to be introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968, which was at the tail end of Frankie’s deployment, and too late to have much impact in South Vietnam. A better option for the cover would’ve been an American-made helicopter like the iconic Bell UH-1 Huey, a Boeing CH-46, or a Boeing CH-47, all were actively flying during the Vietnam war. It may have been a hasty oversight by the jacket designer Michael Storrings showing his lack of aviation knowledge while copying and pasting from Shutterstock. Again, it’s my only gripe about the whole book. But because I’m an aviation geek, noticing tiny details like this gives me pleasure. I’m settling into The Four Winds right now. I’ll take my answer off the air.
Big Kristin Hannah fan here. I read The Women a couple of months ago.
Everything you wrote about the book is absolutely true. I love the story interwoven with popular song references and changing of fashion and her agony of being misunderstood upon her return from deployment.
My only gripe about the whole book is that the helicopter silhouette on the cover appears to be a Soviet-made Mil Mi-8, a helicopter that our heroine Frankie would’ve had vanishingly rare contact with at the field hospitals where she was stationed in Vietnam because the Mil-8 was only just beginning to be introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968, which was at the tail end of Frankie’s deployment, and too late to have much impact in South Vietnam. A better option for the cover would’ve been an American-made helicopter like the iconic Bell UH-1 Huey, a Boeing CH-46, or a Boeing CH-47, all were actively flying during the Vietnam war. It may have been a hasty oversight by the jacket designer Michael Storrings showing his lack of aviation knowledge while copying and pasting from Shutterstock. Again, it’s my only gripe about the whole book. But because I’m an aviation geek, noticing tiny details like this gives me pleasure. I’m settling into The Four Winds right now. I’ll take my answer off the air.
Thanks, Nathan. I certainly was incapable of making that observation about the cover.
I made the purchase