Novelist Elise Hooper’s ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC (US nurses during WWII)

Booktalk with Diana Korte · Mar 4, 2022 · 9m

ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC by Elise Hooper (her fourth novel) tells the powerful story of American army and navy nurses kept as prisoners for nearly three years during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Many of them had fled the hardships of the Great Depression at home before the war for the glamour and adventure of Manila, one of the most desirable postings in the world. But everything changed when the Japanese army invaded with lightning speed and devastating results only hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. These angels of the Pacific served on the front lines…