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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/892126277 Title: Pure grit : how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific Author: Mary Cronk Farrell Publisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014. ISBN/ISSN: 9781613126370 1613126379 OCLC:892126277

  
  

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

Author:	Mary Cronk Farrell
Publisher:	New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"The story of American nurses serving in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked the islands on December 8, 1941"--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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Nurses -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Military nursing -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature. World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- United States. View all subjects
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