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Author Lucchesi, Emilie Le Beau, author.

Title This is really war : the incredible true story of a Navy nurse POW in the occupied Philippines / Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi.

Publication Info. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B DANNER DOROTHY L    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.5470 LUC    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  940.547 LUCCHESI    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary "The story of US Navy nurse Dorothy Still and her colleagues at a military hospital in the Philippines, who cared for their fellow prisoners of war while being held captive by the Japanese during World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.
Contents I'd die before I wore those -- Oh my God, this is really war -- Everything under control -- Banzai -- Chin up, girls -- Room 30A -- Where were you when we needed help? -- Fed up with the way things have been going -- They will suffocate! -- Take them outside -- I am ashamed of you -- We might not come out of this alive -- I have returned -- Do the best you can -- 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide -- Roll out the barrel -- Today we either live or die -- Don't worry anymore about me -- Epilogue: I hear you.
Subject Danner, Dorothy Still, 1914-2001.
Women prisoners of war -- Philippines -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Nurses -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
Los Baños Internment Camp.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines.
Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
Los Baños Internment Camp. (OCoLC)fst00652750
United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
Japanese Occupation of Philippines (1942-1945) (OCoLC)fst01353448
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Armed Forces -- Nurses. (OCoLC)fst01351817
Armed Forces -- Officers. (OCoLC)fst00814617
Women prisoners of war. (OCoLC)fst01739042
Philippines. (OCoLC)fst01205261
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Lucchesi, Emilie Le Beau, author. This is really war Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2019] 9781641600774 (DLC) 2019002844
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