We Band of Angels; The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman - 1999

New York, NY: Random House , 1999 Random House, New York. 1999. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by line number (the number line is "23456789" which is a first printing with the "first edition" statement present, which this book has). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($26.95). Coral boards with ivory overlay on spine with bright red lettering on spine. 327 pp 8vo. This is the story of a group of military nurses who were searching for adventure in the 1930s and instead got caught up in the drama and danger of World War II for three years as prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines. The 99 nurses, captured on Bataan and Corregidor, built and staffed primitive hospitals and ministered wounded and dying soldiers and afterward tended to a civilian population at Santo Tomas in Manila. A story of loyalty, womanhood, and honor that kept them alive and together. A clean pristine copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.