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Audiobooks Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 Nurses United States History 20th century Prisoners of war Great Britain History 20th century Prisoners of war Netherlands History 20th century Prisoners of war Philippines History 20th century Prisoners of war United States History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Medical care United States World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, JapaneseNorman, Elizabeth M
Summary: "In the winter of 1941, as Japanese bombs began to fall on Luzon, American Army and Navy nurses stationed in the Philippines suddenly found themselves caught in a fiery hell of war. Undaunted, they did everything in their power to aid the soldiers, setting up much needed field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor, where they tended to the most devastating injuries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 NORNorman, Elizabeth M.
Summary: Chronicles the experiences of ninety-nine Army and Navy nurses who were captured when the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the American bases located in the Philippines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.547 NORNorman, Michael
Summary: For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 NORNorman, Michael
Summary: Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2009