Women of valor
Subtitle: the Rochambelles on the WWII front
By: Ellen Hampton.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781403971432
Subjects: United States. -- Army. -- Rochambeau Group; United States. -- Army -- Medical personnel -- Biography.; United States. -- Army -- Transport of sick and wounded.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- Europe, Western.
Description: A history of the Rochambelles describes how a group of determined young women, some stranded by the German invasion of France or others who had fled the Nazi occupation, played an important role as an all-female ambulance corps in World War Two.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-223) and index.