Pure grit : how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific

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Label

Pure grit : how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific

Title remainder

how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific

Statement of responsibility

Mary Cronk Farrell ; foreword by First Lieutenant Diane Carlson Evans

Creator

• Farrell, Mary Cronk

Subject

• Nurses -- History -- 20th century
• Prisoners of war
• Prisoners of war -- Philippines
• Military nursing -- History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines

Language

eng

Summary

• "The story of American nurses serving in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked the islands on December 8, 1941."--Dust jacket
• When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island. Later, when most of them were captured by the Japanese as prisoners of war, they suffered disease and near-starvation for three years. This is their story of sisterhood and suffering, of tragedy and betrayal, of death and life

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/7573

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D807.U6

LC item number

F37 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent