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Fessler Diane Burke |
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No time for fear : voices of American military nurses in World War II / / Diane Burke Fessler |
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East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 1996 |
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©1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-60917-027-X |
0-585-27799-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Medical care - United States |
World War, 1939-1945 |
Nurses - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Armed Forces Nurses Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword (Senator Daniel K. Inouye); Foreword (Colonel M. Irene Clark Woodman); Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; 1. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: ""Like rats in a trap.""; 2. Pacific Theater of War: ""You can see what men are made of when you get them freshly wounded.""; 3. Japanese Internment Camps, Philippines: ""You don't know what freedom is until you lose it."" ; 4. China, Burma, and India: ""Culture Shock"" ; 5. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy: ""90 mm shells would zoom right over the hospital."" ; 6. England: ""Buzz bombs, blackouts, and barrage balloons"" |
7. France: ""Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge""8. Germany: ""V-E Day"" ; 9. Russia: ""The Eastern Command""; 10. The 166th General Hospital: ""Raining again""; 11. Snap Shots: ""You never know what will happen when you join the service."" ; 12. The War Ends: ""I can't express how I felt when I heard it was over."" ; Further Reading; Index |
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