Full name: Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific

Author: Mary Cronk Farrell Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781419710285 1419710281

In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But 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. Pure Grit is a story of sisterhood and suffering, of tragedy and betrayal, of death and life. The women cared for one another, maintained discipline, and honored their vocation to nurse anyone in need—all 101 coming home alive.The book is illustrated with archival photographs and includes an index, glossary, and timeline Similar books: The Tunnel by Eric Williams The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie A World Undone by G. J. Meyer