What a way to spend a war : Navy nurse POWs in the Philippines

Title
  1. What a way to spend a war : Navy nurse POWs in the Philippines / Dorothy Still Danner.
Published by
  1. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, ©1995.
Author
  1. Danner, Dorothy Still, 1914-2001.

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Description
  1. ix, 215 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Danner, Dorothy Still, 1914-2001
  2. Danner, Dorothy Still, 1914-2001
  3. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  4. 1939-1945
  5. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
  6. World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
  7. Prisoners of war > United States > Biography
  8. Prisoners of war > Philippines > Biography
  9. Nurses > United States > Biography
  10. Military nursing
  11. Military Nursing
  12. Prisoners
  13. Warfare
  14. Military nursing
  15. Nurses
  16. Prisoners of war
  17. Erlebnisbericht
  18. Krankenschwester
  19. Kriegsgefangenschaft
  20. Geschichte 1941-1945
  21. Philippines
  22. United States
  23. USA
Genre/Form
  1. Personal Narrative
  2. Autobiography
  3. autobiographies (literary works)
  4. Personal narratives
  5. Autobiographies
  6. Biographies
  7. Personal narratives – American
  8. Autobiographies.
  9. Personal narratives.
  10. Récits personnels.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Princeton University Library