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Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses In The Pacific Survived Combat And Prison Camp (2014)

by Mary Cronk Farrell(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1419710281 (ISBN13: 9781419710285)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Abrams Books for Young Readers

review 1: I had never heard about the Army and Navy nurses that were taken hostage in the Phillipines during WWII - in fact, I don't ever recall learning about what happened to the Phillipines during WWII.This book is extremely well written and uses personal information about the nurses involved to give good narrative flow. The pictures are great, too.Recommended for 7th - 10th graders who are looking for a nonfiction book that will keep their attention or those who are interested in prisoners or war or WWII.
review 2: Intriguing, well illustrated, exciting as well as being informative. The book was so fascinating because, as a high school student, information like this has been filed as interesting but irrelevant to the tests I had to pass to get my diploma. Now I get ... moreto read whatever I want and find out about interesting things that happened that aren't necessarily important in the scale of the whole of 20th century history. Hallelujah. Great book. A great story and a high caliber of information. There were characters and the book was about both people and the story and the situation. I loved that it was a little substory that has often been ignored and I am proud to be a person who knows about the nurses who were POWs under the Japanese in the Philippines. My favorite part was when they were liberated and the nurses, --emaciated, sick, hungry, weak, --immediately restarted their nursing duties under the doctors who had come with the liberators. Medicine had advanced without them, the doctors asking for penicillin and the former POW nurses saying "Peni-what?". The nurses waking up as Ms Nesbit, American POW and 12 hours later being First Lieutenant Nesbit of the US Army. I just enjoyed it. Great book. I love the occasional non fiction book with lots of photos, and this was just the fix I needed. Intriguing. and Empowering. less

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