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we band of angels
| Customer Rating: | | this book was very enlighting. i didn't realize that nurses were still on Bataan or corregidor when they fell into Japanese hands. the nurses all displayed a great amount of courage. This was a different view point than from the mens. The book opened up new avenues of discussion with my mother who is in her 80s and remembers when the nurses came home. A good read all the way from start to finish. |
The Hard Truth: When Japanese Raped & Starved American Women & Children
| Customer Rating: | Let's let the book speak for itself:
"Around 8:00 p.m. on April 10 [1942], one day after the surrender, an American officer at Hospital #2, recuperating from a bullet wound in his lung, heard a woman screaming in the tent next to him. In the darkness he propped himself up and saw an American medic quickly approach the tent, only to be sharply turned away by a [Japanese] sentry wielding a rifle and bayonet. The cries continued for a while, then stopped. In the morning, Ehtyle Mae Mercado [an American from Utah, wife of a Filipino] stumbled into the officer's tent, bruised and weeping. She'd been raped, she said, at least five times, all through the night....
"Roughly a quarter of the 3,800 internees were children under the age of eighteen....
"It was not unusual to see children scrounging through garbage cans by the Japanese army mess hall for scraps of food..." |
Praise for "We Band of Angels."
| Customer Rating: | | Like many other people, I've always wanted to know what happened to our American nurses who were captured on Bataan and Corregidor? Elizabeth Norman not only answers this question, but through her interviews with the nurses who survived three years of captivity by the Japanese, has described the experience in great detail. And in the telling, I got a lot more than just an answer to my question; I gained an insight into what made these remarkable women tick, and why it was that they were able to survive when so many others succumbed. "We Band of Angels" is a triumph of research into a too-little known segment of our history, and in its ability to evoke a new appreciation of the human spirit it is nothing less than a modest masterpiece. |
couldn't put it down
| Customer Rating: | It has been SO LONG since I've read a book that I could not put down, and that I didn't end up dozing off with late at night. I work in a bookstore, I read all genres. A co-worker, who runs the history sections, and a Vietnam Vet, recommended this when I ventured into his section looking for something new to read. He didn't even hesitate, he reached right for it, and said it's one he just hangs on to, and leaves on the shelf 'past its prime'. It wasn't a bunch of hype, and it wasn't so graphically horrific that you couldn't face picking it back up, or just didn't want to finish it.
Yet, it WAS horrific. Even after reading it and being deeply affected by it, I still just can't imagine........................ |
It has opened my eyes!!
| Customer Rating: | | Being a child of the 70's I slept thru most of high school. I'm also a nurse. This book has shown me things I never knew about WWII, the Pacific and Gen. MacAuthur (who wasn't a hero). These nurses are the heros and shows what real nursing is all about!! |
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