After Bataan and Corregidor fell, the nurses were herded into internment camps where they would endure three years of fear, brutality, and starvation. Caught in the raging battle, the nurses set up field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor, where they tended to the most devastating injuries of war, and suffered the terrors of shells and shrapnel. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in Luzon, and this paradise became a fiery hell. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. Book Synopsis In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. About the Book Originally published in hardcover by Random House in 1999.
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