Janelle C. (jscrappy) reviewed on 3/8/2008 + 59 more book reviews

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This is a straightforward account of the army and navy nurses who were trapped on Bataan and Corregidor when the Japanese invaded in World War II. Some were able to be evacuated, and some spent the remainder of the war in Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila. These nurses were the first American military women to see combat. The book is written by a nurse, and that lends some added depth to the descriptions of a nurse's relationships with her patients, and the accounts of tropical diseases and malnutrition that affected the soldiers and the prisoners of the Japanese. An easy and satisfying read for anyone interested in the war or in pioneering women.

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