Elizabeth Norman's book We Band of Angels is about how American Navy nurses helped people and soldiers in WWII. When the Japanese dropped bombs on American base in 1941, the women were in a jungle in Bataan. They had energy and capacity as they set up their hospitals in the jungle. Soon, the wounded and sick started filling up the jungle hospitals, and food began to run to out. After the troops surrendered Bataan to the Japanese, the nurses were taken to Corregidor, where they help soldiers in an underground hospital. Then, the nurses were transported to a camp for three years. At the camp, the nurses were nearly starved to death. They had worms in their food, and ate cat meat. After three years of brutal formality in the camps, the Angels came home to America, with sickness and very skinny from starvation.
Elizabeth Norman is a writer, who spent many
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Also, I liked reading the diaries of the nurses because it helped the flow and understanding of the book, and it gives the readers understanding of the hardships the nurses went through in WWII. Also, the thesis or the purpose of the book is to not to criticize women of their actions of their roles. The women was very traditional and satisfying of their roles in the military. The women joined the military as their nurse, but not expecting the hardships they went through, but they made it back home to America.
People, who I would recommend this book to read would be history teachers, nurses, doctors and future nurses. Like mentioned before, I want to be a nurse for my future career, and the book has given me encouragement and faith to be a nurse and to be successful. So, a nurse, who is having troubles would love this book for encouragement. History teachers would love this book to help teach and understand more about the nurses in