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We band of angels : the untold story of American nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
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- Creator
- Elizabeth M. Norman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Random House, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xv, 327 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780375502453, 0375502459
- OCLC
- ocm39930499
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-292) and index.
- Waking up to war -- Manila cannot hold -- Jungle hospital #1 -- The sick, the wounded, the work of war -- Waiting for the help that never came -- "There must be no thought of surrender" -- Bataan falls: the wounded are left in their beds -- Corregidor: the last stand -- A handful go home -- In enemy hands -- Santo Thomas -- STIC, the first year, 1942 -- Los Banos, 1943 -- Eating weeds fried in cold cream, 1944 -- And the gates came crashing down -- "Home,. We're really home." -- Aftermath -- Across the years
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Prisoners of war -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century.
- Nurses -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Military Nursing -- history -- United States.
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- Prisoners -- United States.
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- Warfare -- United States.
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