Women Heroes of World War IIathe Pacific Theater
15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival
Glamorous American singer Claire Phillips opened a nightclub in manila, using the earnings to secretly feed starving American POWs. She also began working as a spy, chatting up Japanese military men and passing their secrets along to local guerrilla resistance fighters. Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel, stationed in Singapore, then shipwrecked in the the Dutch East Indies, became the sole survivor of a horrible massacre by Japanese soliders. She hid for days, tending to a seriously wounded British soldier while wounded herself. Humanitarian Elizabeth Choy lived the rest of her life hating war, though not her tormentors, after enduring…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61373-168-0
- EAN: 9781613731680
- Produktnummer: 19753058
- Verlag: Chicago Review Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H15.2 cm x B22.7 cm x D2.4 cm 424 g
- Gewicht: 424
- Sonstiges: Teenage / Young Adult
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