New York: Random House, 1999. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xv, [5], 327, [3] pages. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Includes Illustrations, Foreword and Maps, as well as Afterword, Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Appendix I: Chronology of Military Nurses in the Philippine Islands, 1940-1945; Appendix 2: The Nurses and Their Hometowns; Bibliography, Endnotes, and Index. Elizabeth Norman is a best-selling author and historian. Her work focuses on nurses and the role of women in military history. Norman earned a Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University. She is a registered nurse. As an author, Norman has made significant contributions to the field of women's military history. Her work brings to light the often-neglected experiences of women during wartime. Her first book, Women at War, examines the previously untold experience of fifty women who served as nurses during the Vietnam War. Her second book, We Band of Angels, is based on interviews with female nurses who were held captive by the Japanese for three years in Bataan, Philippines during World War II. Norman was the first to speak to these women, known as the Angels of Bataan, about the tragedy they endured. She described the experience of conducting these interviews as, "women talking candidly about women swept up in a lethal enterprise of men." Her third book, Tears in the Darkness, is a history of the Bataan Death March and the American, Filipino, and Japanese combatants who were involved. Her inspiration to write about military nurses came from her experience as a nurse as well as the fact that both her mother and husband have served in the U.S. military. More