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.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0671787187
ISBN-13
9780671787189
Publication Date
May 2000
Item Weight
0.80 pounds
Length
8.27 inch
Width
5.31 inch
Height
0.98 inch
First Sentence
IN THE FALL of 1941, while the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy secretly stockpiled tons of materiel and readied regiments of troops to attack American and European bases in the Pacific, the officers of General Douglas MacArthur's Far East Command in the Philippines pampered themselves with the sweet pleasures of colonial life.
