Title: Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan
Author: Melissa Bowersock
Web: www.newmoonrising.net
Genre: non-fiction, biography,
historical
ISBN: 1460973194
Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4AmLynvfo&feature=g-upl
Reviewed by Edward Kelly for Military Writers Society of America's Dispatches E-Zine
Author's SummaryMarcia Gates was an Army nurse and
prisoner of war during WWll. As an "Angel of Bataan," she spent three
years in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. This is her story, told
through her letters and the newspaper clippings, photos and letters collected by
her mother. Melissa Bowersock is the niece of Marcia Gates.
MWSA ReviewThis is the true story of a nurse, Marcia Gates,
during World War II and her experiences during the battle of Bataan and three
years as a prisoner of war. But it is more than that because this story also
relates how the families at home were feeling- frustrated and concerned about
their lack of information about Marcia and her safety.
This
book is easy to read and many will find it difficult to put down as one wants to
know- does Marcia make it home? The format is also augmented by actual letters
written by Marcia, other nurses and from family members to Marcia. It may be
difficult for some who are so used to the modern e-mail system to even imagine
the problems of letters not arriving home for months and how that effected the
family who used every resource they could to get any information they could of
their daughter. The author uses these letters to carefully weave a true account
of what was happening on both sides of the world.
I found the
story excited, surprised by some of the descriptions of conditions and wondered
why I hadn’t heard this story before. The author has brought out one of the
untold stories of World War II- about a nurse. I believe this book will have
wide appeal to many audiences including: medical personnel, historians, veterans
and anyone interested in good story with a happening ending.
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