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03065aam a22003855a 4500 001 4549687A940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 230303s2022 xxu es 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0063068915 020 $a 9780063068919 028 42 $a MWT15713126 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Hooper, Elise, $e author. 245 10 $a Angels of the Pacific : $b a novel of World War II $h [electronic resource] / $c Elise Hooper. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b William Morrow Paperbacks, $c 2022. 300 $a 1 online resource 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 $a If you loved Beantown Girls by Jane Healey and Hazel Gaynor's When We Were Young & Brave, then you won't want to miss critically acclaimed author Elise Hooper's powerful new novel of the Angels of Bataan, nurses held as prisoners, during the occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Their survival would depend on sisterhood and service. Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously, known as, the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately, victory. The Philippines, 1941. Tess Abbott, an American Army nurse, has fled the hardships of the Great Depression at home for the glamour and adventure of Manila, one of the most desirable postings in the world, but everything changes, when the Japanese Imperial Army invades with lightning speed and devastating results. Tess and her band of nurses serve on the front lines until captured as prisoners of war and held behind the high stonewalls of Manila's Santo Tomas Internment Camp for four long years. As the Japanese occupation of her beloved homeland commences, Flor Dalisay, a Filipina university student, will be drawn into the underground network of resistance and discover reserves of courage, resilience, and leadership she never, knew she possessed. The war and its aftermath will lead Tess and Flor to find each other to uncover secrets and reveal relationships, they would never have predicted, as they work together to defeat the Japanese. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Nurses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Philippines $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Philippines $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, Japanese $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Underground movements $z Philippines $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Electronic books. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14296971?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780063068919_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206012348.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4549687A940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search