What a way to spend a war : Navy nurse POWs in the Philippines
- Title
- What a way to spend a war : Navy nurse POWs in the Philippines / Dorothy Still Danner.
- Published by
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, ©1995.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- ix, 215 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- One of eleven U.S. Navy nurses held captive by the Japanese in Manila from 1942 until 1945, Danner offers a fascinating memoir of her nightmarish experiences behind barbed wire.
- Subject
- Danner, Dorothy Still, 1914-2001
- Danner, Dorothy Still, 1914-2001
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
- Prisoners of war > United States > Biography
- Prisoners of war > Philippines > Biography
- Nurses > United States > Biography
- Military nursing
- Military Nursing
- Prisoners
- Warfare
- Military nursing
- Nurses
- Prisoners of war
- Erlebnisbericht
- Krankenschwester
- Kriegsgefangenschaft
- Geschichte 1941-1945
- Philippines
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Personal narratives
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – American
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Récits personnels.
- Contents
- Becoming a nurse -- Arrival in fantasyland -- Happy days -- Pearl harbor -- Manila under attack -- The yard destroyed -- Order amid chaos -- On the move -- Manila occupied -- Santo Tomas -- Bataan falls -- Corregidor falls -- Life in Santo Tomas -- Overcrowding -- Los Ba?os -- Someone special -- "Country club" living -- Crowding and crime -- Deprivations -- U.S. planes spotted -- Waiting -- Camp Freedom destroyed -- Rescue -- Getting home -- Adjusting.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library