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Summary: This Band of Angels lives through hell.
Review: What a wonderful collection of memories & stories woven together with reportage of the only group of American women to be imprisoned during the Second World War. Just in time Dr. Norman has hunted up the last living Nurses who survived Bataan and Corregidor when Japanese forces landed & MacArthur retreated. A profound & wrenching read from that long ago paradise assignment in the vast Pacific Ocean where the toughest decision these girls had to make was what to wear on a date. Soon they must decide to stay with their fighting men, to build jungle hospitals, tend unimaginable wounds & hole-up in deep munition tunnels or slowly die in prisons. The black & White photos are riveting!
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Summary: Absolutely outstanding! Read this book!
Review: An incredible true story! I am most grateful to the author for writing it. Extraordinary, a page-turner, reads like fiction. I am amazed that I never before heard of these brave, ordinary women. I am in awe of them!
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: A story that needed to be told, and is done so in a thoroughly riveting manner. The person who voted a "one star" and said that all of us "five star" reviewers were the author's friends is sorely mistaken.
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Summary: The story that had to be told!
Review: This is a fantastic book that tells the heroism of our troops abondoned in the Phillipines and how they held out for 5 months under austeure conditions. All this is told through the eyes of the 80-90 Army and Navy nurses who worked under battlefield conditions to minister to the sick and wounded. There were no front and rear areas on Bataan and Corregidor and these nurses performed supurlative feats with all manner of bombs dropping around them constantly, snipers, friendly fire and the ever present threat of capture and mis-treatment from the Japanese Army. This needs to be made into a "Saving Private Ryan" quality movie to further celebrate their outstanding accomplishments and to tell a story that our government may not want told.
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Summary: Women at war: a story of survival and heroism
Review: Wherever war strikes there are women who sacrificially rise to the needs of the moment to help others survive. The nurses in We Band of Angels are exemplary. Based in the idyllic Philippines, they found themselves very quickly in the throes of hardship. From evacuation to jungle survival, field hospital trauma and starvation, things went from bad to worse. Finally the harsh reality of prison camp under unsympathetic captors. This is their story of survival. I like this book because it describes part of American history mostly neglected in history books. If you like this book I also recommend In the Shadow of the Rising Sun, an even more harrowing true story telling it from an American POW's view.
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Summary: Well researched and documented story of imprisoned U.S. nurs
Review: Written by a nurse, this is a detailed account of the difficulties encountered by U.S. Army nurses when they were part of the American forces which surrendered to the Japanese invaders of the Philippine Islands in 1942. Using notes, diaries, and letters of the nurses and many other published and unpublished sources, and interviews of the survivors, Ms. Norman recounts many personal stories which detail the individual experiences which are not usually included in works of history. You learn a little about the Japanese and a lot about American fortitude under the most difficult conditions imaginable. It will make you proud and appreciative of these American women.
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Summary: Does for Army Nurses what "Saving Private Ryan" did for GIs
Review: A well-researched and written account that brings the grim realities of the Pacific war and the POW experience under the Japanese to all-too vivid life. Yet, it clearly paints an inspiring picture of true rather than mythic heroism. These women are real with failings, foibles, passions and personal problems... yet, they rose to meet their horrid circumstances with tenacity, dedication and sheer grit.Just as the film Saving Private Ryan showed us that the greatness of the average GI was his sheer willingness to do his job in the face of the carnage of war; so We Band Of Angels show us the equal courage and inner strength of women in war. We owe much to them and we have much to learn from them. Bless 'em all!
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Summary: You`re a Hollywood fan?
Review: If you are and you saw the 1942 movie "So Proudly We Hail" and liked it, you should read "We Band of Angels". Very well researched and written, it reads like a novel but it is pure reality: we feel the fear, resent the hunger and the bad treatments with the nurses. This is not your typical war history tale, more a deep socio-historical point of view on middle 20th century women. We must encourage that kind of work that clearly demonstrates that american women (any, for instance) never stayed in the dark and showed courage in many unpublicized situations.
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Summary: Superior!
Review: Well-written, well-researched, a superb story about a group of women our nation should be incredibly indebted to! For anyone who wants to understand the depth of sacrifice and service to their country, this is a must-read! Norman should be proud of her accomplishment and we, as a country, owe these women some thanks!
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Summary: Unsung heroines!
Review: I've rarely been as moved as I was while reading 'We Band of Angels'. I can never get enough to read about WWII. This year has been good to me, with 'War of the Rats' and 'The Triumph and the Glory' being published. Now this profoundly inspiring tale about our army nurses on Bataan and Corregidor has been released and I have to say it shines with examples of courage and dedication to principles of honor and duty. Great book about some great women!
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