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When we had wings / Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner.

ISBN: 9780785253341
ISBN: 9781400240845
ISBN: 9780785253044
Physical Description: 424 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Nashville : Harper Muse, [2022]
Copyright: &copy;2022

Lawhon, Ariel, (author.). McMorris, Kristina, (author.). Meissner, Susan, 1961- (author.).

Summary:

"Based on real history and alternating between three perspectives, When We Had Wings tells an amazingly moving story of heroic service, perseverance in the darkest of days, and the hope of the human spirit. The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they're living a paradise assignment. All three are seeking a way to escape their pasts, but soon the beauty and promise of their surroundings give way to the heavy mantle of war. Caught in the crosshairs of a fight between the U.S. military and the Imperial Japanese Army for control of the Philippine Islands, the nurses are forced to serve under combat conditions and, ultimately, endure captivity as the first female prisoners of the Second World War. As their resiliency is tested in the face of squalid living arrangements, food shortages, and the enemy's blatant disregard for the articles of the Geneva Convention, the women strive to keep their hope--and their fellow inmates--alive, though not without great cost." --Provided by publisher.