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No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II
No Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation―all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor.
Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
Lethal Tides tells the story of Mary Sears, “the first oceanographer of the Navy,” whose groundbreaking research led the U.S. to victory in the Pacific theater during World War II. Author Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy’s success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the then-new science of oceanography.
I’ll Be Seeing You: Letters Home from a Navy Girl
In August 1943, after months of consideration, Lucy Berkey enlisted in the Navy WAVES, and following boot camp in New York City, she was assigned to the Hydrographic Office in Washington, D.C., where she served for the duration of the war as a map artist. Lucy’s vivid and captivating letters home are filled with warmth, humor, and love for her family and friends. She details her training, work, travel, and the unique friendships and camaraderie that developed between the women of the WAVES. Over 80 period photos help to illustrate her experiences.
Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
Our Mothers’ War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women’s experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers’ War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad.
“Okay, Girls – Man Your Bunks!” Tales from the Life of a WWII Navy WAVE
A lively and compelling autobiography of one of the first enlisted Navy WAVES in WWII. From joining the Navy to joining the mile-high club, Helen Gilbert’s life was interrupted and forever changed by Pearl Harbor, and she describes in very straightforward terms how it was to enter a traditionally male world. Whether recalling the Depression, WWII, or sharing her thoughts on the aftermath of Sept. 11th and the war in Iraq, Helen pulls no punches. A book chock-full of eyebrow-raising anecdotes and life-affirming stories.
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in Luzon. Caught in the raging battle, the nurses set up field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor. After Bataan and Corregidor fell, the nurses were herded into internment camps where they would endure three years of fear, brutality, and starvation.
