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03310cam a2200433Ia 4500 001 707435342B0B11DE9A033608A8D7520A 005 200904162351.0 008 041129s2004 nyuab d b 001 0deng d 020 $a 9781400031290 020 $a 140003129X 035 $a (OCoLC)57068050 040 $a FVC $c FVC $d SILO $d OCLCQ $d XY4 $d OCL $d IWN $d SILO 100 1 $a Monahan, Evelyn. 245 1 $a And if I perish : $b frontline U.S. Army nurses in World War II / $c by Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. 250 $a 1st Anchor Books ed. 260 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, $c 2004. 300 $a x, 514 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-500) and index. 520 $a A galvanizing narrative of the wartime role played by U.S. Army nurses from the invasion of North Africa to the bloody Italian campaign to the decisive battles in France and the Rhineland. More than 59,000 nurses volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps alone: 217 lost their lives (16 by enemy action), and more than 1,600 were decorated for meritorious service and bravery under fire. But their stories have rarely been heard. Now, drawing on never-before-published eyewitness accounts many heroic, some mundane and comic Monahan and Neidel-Greenlee take us to the front lines, to the withering fire on the beaches of Anzio and Normandy, and to the field and evacuation hospitals, as well as bombed and burned hospital ships. We witness the nurses and the doctors with whom they served coping with the physical and psychological damage done to the soldiers in combat. We see them working often with only meager supplies and overwhelmed by the sheer number of casualties to save the lives and limbs of thousands of wounded troops. With them we experience the almost constant packing up and moving on to keep up with advancing troops, foxholes dug under camp beds, endless mud, and treacherous minefields. The vividness and immediacy of their recollections provide us with a powerfully visceral, deeply affecting sense of their experiences terrifying and triumphant, exhausting and exhilarating. A revelatory work that at last gives voice to the nurses who played such an essential role in World War II. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army Nurse Corps $x History $y 20th century. 610 12 $a United States. $b Army Nurse Corps. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Medical care $z United States. 650 0 $a Military nursing $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 12 $a Military Nursing $x history $z United States 650 22 $a History of Medicine, 20th Cent. $z United States. 650 22 $a Nurses $z United States. $v biography. 650 22 $a War $x history $z United States. 700 1 $a Neidel-Greenlee, Rosemary, $d 1941- 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random043/2003047463.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random047/2003047463.html 939 $a 5565055 941 $a 5 952 $l ENPC715 $d 20220820011344.0 952 $l XHPD657 $d 20200211013418.0 952 $l IBAX173 $d 20180307020138.0 952 $l URAX314 $d 20170609043135.0 952 $l FWPE284 $d 20150213060643.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=707435342B0B11DE9A033608A8D7520A 994 $a 01 $b IWNInitiate Another SILO Locator Search