Pure grit: how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific 9781419710285, 1819672069, 1419710281

In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl H

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Table of contents :
Introduction --
Adventure and romance --
Surprise attack --
No time for fear --
Nurses under fire --
Retreat to the jungle --
Make-do medicine --
Boxed in on Bataan --
Retreat to the rock --
Holing up on Corregidor Island --
Rescued! --
Surrender to the enemy --
Held incommunicado --
Santo Tomas internment camp --
Food? Grow your own --
Hope at last --
Walking skeletons --
Liberation! --
Homecoming --
Forgotten --
Moving on --
Recognition at last.

Pure grit: how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific
 9781419710285, 1819672069, 1419710281

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