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114 pp.
| Atheneum |
October, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-689-82044-5$$18.00
(4)
YA
Using first-person accounts and archival black-and-white photos, Kuhn presents the stirring anecdotes of nurses who served in WWII. Although transitions from the European to the Pacific theater are not clearly signaled between stories, the nurses' fortitude comes through plainly as they laugh at hardship and recount good times and adventure, more than they discuss the horror of war. Bib., ind.