Theresa Kaminski
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to hold out on Bataan and Corregidor. That spring, most of the men were thrown into Japanese POW camps while dozens of others slipped away to organize guerrilla forces. Kaminski tells the story of four American women who were part of this little-known resistance movement: Gladys Savary, Claire Phillips, Yay...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I will always be somebody." This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in recognition of the incomparable medical service Walker rendered during the Civil War. Yet few people today know anything about the woman so well-known -- even notorious -- in her own time. Mary Walker's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ethel Thomas Herold (1896-1988) was an ordinary person caught in extraordinary circumstances, a woman whose sense of patriotic duty took her from Wisconsin to the Philippines in 1922. There, she would spend next thirty-seven years, including three in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Theresa Kaminski uses Ethel's experiences of war and imperialism to explore how those enormous forces helped shape Americans' notions of citizenship and...
5) Enduring what cannot be endured: memoir of a woman medical aide in the Philippines in World War II
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
v, 197 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
