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Pure Grit

How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific

Pure Grit( )
Author: Cronk Farrell, Mary
Foreword by: Carlson Evans, Diane
ISBN:978-1-4197-1028-5
Publication Date:Jun 2014
Publisher:Abrams, Inc.
Imprint:Abrams Books for Young Readers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $27.26AUD $29.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:128
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Health & Daily Living / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Military & Wars
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):22.543 x 26.353 x 1.905 cm
Book Weight:0.855 Kilograms



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