![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Removing bandages, cleaning and recovering wounds, helping soldiers to drink, cleaning bedpans. No one was prepared for this.īriony spends majority of the chapter passing on from one soldier to the next. A superior nurse then assures her that “procedure” can be let go. She has no control over the men, and panics. At one point, she leads a battalion of wounded soldiers to a vacant ward and tries to follow the procedures she has been taught. Despite these moments of self pity, Briony tries to fulfill her role as a nurse, the one she has trained for, but the scene is too chaotic for her. Hundreds of wounded soldiers back from France are spread out all over the hospital lawn and steps.īriony attempts to carry a wounded soldier into the operating room and almost drops him. On their walk back to the hospital, they come on the horrifying scene they had been anticipating, dreading, and hoping would never come. They enjoy their time away from the hospital and share laughs, getting to know more about one another. Briony and Fiona go to the park for lunch. ![]()
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Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. ![]() ![]() And so begins an unprecedented international battle against space-based terror that will soon involve the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NORAD, and the CIA. Then Kazumi receives highly sensitive information from a source claiming to be an Iranian scientist. At the same time, billionaire entrepreneur Ronnie Smark and his journalist daughter prepare to check into an orbital hotel as part of a stunt promoting private space tourism. ![]() Halfway across the world, at NORAD, Staff Sergeant Darryl Freeman begins his investigation of the debris. 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