| Author | : June Wandrey |
| Publisher | : Mitchell Beazley |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Contains ... unedited observations and thoughts recorded in ... diaries and letters home from October 1942 to October 1945.
No Time for Fear
| Author | : Diane Burke Fessler |
| Publisher | : MSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 1997-05-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1628952547 |
No Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation—all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor. This unique oral-history collection makes available to readers an important counterpoint to the seemingly endless discussions of strategy, planning, and troop movement that often characterize discussions of the Second World War.
Lingering Fever
| Author | : LaVonne Telshaw Camp |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2012-11-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147660326X |
During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war. Nothing in her training had prepared her for the tropical diseases or the thatched-roof hospital where men spat on the floor, rats were pervasive, and patients used handguns to chase gigantic cockroaches (and wereas likely to sell their medicine as swallow it). The experience was made tolerable by Nurse Camp's romance with one of the airmen who flew the Hump, supplying O.S.S. troops behind Japanese lines and carrying General Joseph Stilwell's Chinese troops to fight the battle of North Burma. She accompanied her future husband on some of his missions. Based in part on letters she wrote to her parents, this is the poignant story of one nurse's experience in World War II.
And If I Perish
| Author | : Evelyn Monahan |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 530 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307424782 |
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them. For more than half a century these women’s experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of reasearch and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war. From the North African and Italian Campaigns to the Liberation of France and the Conquest of Germany, U.S. Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the frontlines with grit, humor, and great heroism. A long overdue work of history, And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy.
Last Shots for Patton's Third Army
| Author | : Robert Paul Fuller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : 097405190X |
Commandos and Rangers of World War II
| Author | : James D. Ladd |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
An insight into the methods and equipment of the Commando and Ranger units, including the special tactics and techniques which they developed to spearhead the Allied invasions. It includes personal and eye-witness accounts, which aid understanding of the campaigns and their aims and achievements.
They Called Them Angels
| Author | : Kathi Jackson |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2006-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780803276277 |
With the insight and intimacy of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could have made more money as civilians, thousands chose to leave the security of home to care for the young men who went off to war. They were not saints but vibrant women whose performance changed both military and civilian nursing. Kathi Jackson's account follows army and navy nurses from the time they joined the military, through their active service, to their lives today. They Called Them Angels presents the stories of women who lived under extraordinary circumstances in an extraordinary time, women who even today bear emotional scars along with lasting pride.
Low Town
| Author | : Daniel Polansky |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2011-08-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385534477 |
Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. Every day is a constant hustle to find new customers and protect his turf from low-life competition like Tancred the Harelip and Ling Chi, the enigmatic crime lord of the heathens. The Warden’s life of drugged iniquity is shaken by his discovery of a murdered child down a dead-end street . . . setting him on a collision course with the life he left behind. As a former agent with Black House—the secret police—he knows better than anyone that murder in Low Town is an everyday thing, the kind of crime that doesn’t get investigated. To protect his home, he will take part in a dangerous game of deception between underworld bosses and the psychotic head of Black House, but the truth is far darker than he imagines. In Low Town, no one can be trusted. Daniel Polansky has crafted a thrilling novel steeped in noir sensibilities and relentless action, and set in an original world of stunning imagination, leading to a gut-wrenching, unforeseeable conclusion. Low Town is an attention-grabbing debut that will leave readers riveted . . . and hungry for more.
