Non-fiction review: And If I Perish
I picked this book up at the library because my brother was reading it (we both sometimes share Mom's account for ebooks, so we see what everyone's reading--sometimes it's fun to guess who's reading what) and it looked interesting. I wasn't wrong. Title : And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
Auth or: Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Publication Info : e-book 2007 Anchor (Original hardback 2003 by Knopf, 514 pages).
Source : Library
Publisher’s Blurb (from Amazon) : In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around the...