"In addition to photographs and helpful maps, the page layouts include facsimiles of the nurses' letters and diaries. As awful as history can be, now might be the right time to introduce the next generation to this important period." She includes the challenges these women faced and the joy they felt on returning home. "Farrell doesn't spare her young readers any grim details. "Primary source materials, especially the movingly matter-of-fact recollections of several of the nurses and personal snapshots, bring the story to life." "Details of many nurses' individual trials combine to form a memorable portrayal of their shared experience, one which will emotionally impact readers." The book is illustrated with archival photographs and includes an index, glossary, and timeline. The women cared for one another, maintained discipline, and honored their vocation to nurse anyone in need-all 101 coming home alive. Pure Grit is a story of sisterhood and suffering, of tragedy and betrayal, of death and life. Later, when most of them were captured by the Japanese as prisoners of war, they suffered disease and near-starvation for three years.
The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them.
In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S.
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