We Band of Angels
Subtitle: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
Publisher: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780606198776
Subjects: Asia; Military - United States; Women's Studies - History; History - Military / War
First sentence: IN THE FALL of 1941, while the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy secretly stockpiled tons of materiel and readied regiments of troops to attack American and European bases in the Pacific, the officers of General Douglas MacArthur's Far East Command in the Philippines pampered themselves with the sweet pleasures of colonial life.