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Based on tanya biank s book, under the sabers, the show. Tanya biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life and shows what it is. Her sister, lieutenant colonel maria biank, was deployed to iraq in 2009, the. Tanya biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life and shows what it is really like to be an army wifefrom hauling furniture off the rental truck by yourself at a new. Under the sabers metropolitan library system overdrive. She has written two books, one of which was the inspiration for the television show, army wives. In this hardhitting and powerful book, biank takes a close look at the other. Under the sabers demonstrates that while it is tough to be a soldier, it can be even tougher to be the wife of a soldier. The book is the basis for lifetime tvs hit show army wives.

This article examines the firstever lifetime original drama series, army wives. Army wives was created by katherine fugate, based on the book under the saber. Biank, a former reporter for the fayetteville observer who grew up as an army brat and is now an army wife, knows the military life and fort bragg well. It brought light to the hardships that military women face with other women, their family life, and the struggle of sending their husbands off to war. The basis for the book came from the string of army wife murders in the spring and summer of 2002, that occurred in fort bragg, fayetteville, north carolina. In this hardhitting and powerful book, biank takes a close look at the other womanthe army itselfand its impact on wives, marriages, and. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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The unwritten code of army wives english edition ebook. I was raised with the book the army wife by nancy shea, which gave us. Tanya biank helps those of us who work with families of deployed soldiers become better able to understand and serve them. Biank explores what happens when real life collides with army convention. The unwritten code of military marriage was the basis for lifetimes hit tv series, army wives. Under the sabers is a nonfiction book that follows four army wives stationed at fort bragg the two years prior to the shocking summer in which four army wives were murdered within a 6 month period. The daughter of a career army officer, tanya lives in virginia with her husband, an army officer assigned to the pentagon.