The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War

In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what

Contains ... unedited observations and thoughts recorded in ... diaries and letters home from October 1942 to October 1945.

What it was like to be a nurse in every theatre of operation from Dunkirk to the Western desert of North Africa.

During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war. Nothing in her trai