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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Woman with a Purple Heart: A Novel (edizione 2023)di Diane Hanks (Autore)
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"Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital, The Woman with a Purple Heart is an inspiring WWII novel of heroic leadership, courage, and friendship that also exposes a shocking and shameful side of history. Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her? In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The others on her transport plane are thrilled to work in paradise, but Annie sees her new duty station as the Army's way of holding the door open to her retirement. But serving her country is her calling and she will go wherever she is told. On December 7, Annie's on her way to work when the first Japanese Zero fighter plane flies low over Hickam's Parade Ground. The death and destruction that follow leave her no time to process what's happening. She rallies her nurses, and they work to save as many lives as they can. But soon their small hospital is overwhelmed. Annie drives into Honolulu to gather supplies, nurses, and several women who will donate blood. However, the nurses are Japanese Americans, and the blood donors are prostitutes. Under Annie's leadership and working together in unexpected ways, they make itthrough that horrific day, when one of the Japanese American nurses and Annie's friend, Kay, is arrested as a suspected subversive. As Hickam tries to recover, Annie works to find her friend and return Kay to her family. But Annie's love for her countryis put to the test. How can she reconcile the American bravery and resilience she saw on December 7 with the prejudice and injustice she witnesses just a few months later?"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Annie Fox was a career Army nurse. She was 48 years old when she was transferred to Hickman Field and she felt that this transfer was the Army's way of telling her that she was too old. Her arrival at Pearl Harbor was less than a month before the Japanese bombed the island and started the war. After the attack, the hospital was full of injured and dying men but Annie was able to keep calm and worked with the other nurses to keep them calm and make rational decisions despite their fear. She knew that the nursing staff needed more help so she recruited some nurses from the local Japanese American health center - a move that wasn't very popular with some of the wounded soldiers. Kay was one of the Japanese American nurses and they were friends. Annie was shocked when Kay is arrested as a possible spy and tries to find her to bring her back to her children. When all of the Japanese civilians in Hawaii are sent to internment camps in America, she doesn't understand the prejudice that exists and keeps trying to get Kay returned home.
I am always amazed when an author writes a story based on a real person whose bravery has been forgotten. It seems to happen more with brave women who made a real difference during the war. Annie Fox was a real hero and as many WWII books as I've read, this is first time that I've ever read about her. The book not only talks about her and her bravery but highlights what really happened on the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked -- the bravery of the soldiers, the death and destruction and the courage of the Army nurses and doctors all made a difference on the 'day that will live in infamy'. ( )