What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse Pows in the Philippines | 
 enlarge | Author: Dorothy Still Danner
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Category: Book
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Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Edition: Largeprint
Pages: 323
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0783820216
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.547252092
EAN: 9780783820217
ASIN: 0783820216
Publication Date: January 1997
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NonfictionLarge Print EditionBy the time Corregidor fell in 1942, prisoners of the Japanese in Manila included eleven U.S. Navy nurses. They endured deprivation of even basic necessities and lived in constant fear for their lives. On the day of their scheduled execution February 23, 1945 they were rescued by the Eleventh Airborne Division. Once back in the states, the former POWs had a new set of problems to cope with. They missed the camaraderie they had come to depend on; old friends and family seemed like strangers; postwar depression had set in. But Danner painstakingly rebuilt her life, and much later, she rediscovered the man she had loved as a POW. Heres a fascinating look at a young womans development under extraordinary circumstances.
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What A Way to Spend A War August 3, 2002
Diane Fessler (Phoenix, AZ United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Navy nurses who were imprisoned in the Philippines have a great story to tell, and this book recreates the strange and depressing life they had to share all those years. Never knowing what the next day would bring, or if they were ever going to be rescued, these brave young women survived terrible starvation,and malnutrition with great spirit and fortitude. I know some of these nurses, having written about them in No Time For Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II. Dorothy Danner's story is included, and I will never forget her voice, telling how they continued to be Navy Nurses to other prisoners, despite their own hardships.
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