Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Författare till G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
Om författaren
Barbara Brooks Tomblin taught military history at Rutgers University and is the author of several books and articles about World War II and the Civil War. She lives in California
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G.I. nightingales : the Army Nurse Corps in World… av Barbara Tomblin
Author uses both official sources and memoirs, letters and oral history interviews to tell wonderful stories about the experiences of Army Nurses who served in every theater of the war during World War II. Included are first hand accounts of nurses at Pearl Harbor, New Guinea, North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, France, Germany, the China India Burma (CBI) theater, and even little written of areas such as Iceland, Canada, Alaska, the Aleutians, and the Persian Gulf Command, and the African American Nurses who served in Liberia. There is also an account of the several nurses who served in Russia.… (mer)
Though I have not, in the past, read any of the author's other work, in this case she has turned out a very competent narrative history of naval combat on the Mississippi that can be recommended with no reservations.
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- Verk
- 4
- Medlemmar
- 76
- Popularitet
- #233,522
- Betyg
- 4.5
- Recensioner
- 2
- ISBN
- 18