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    American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy
    American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy
    American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy
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    American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy

    By Bob Welch

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    The heart-wrenching and inspirational WWII story of the first American nurse to die at the Normandy landings, the true account of a woman whose courage and compassion led to what a national radio show host in 1945 called "one of the most moving stories to come out of the war—a story of an army nurse that surpassed anything Hollywood has ever dreamed of."

    She was a Jewish girl growing up in World War I-torn Poland. At age seven, she and her family immigrated to America with dreams of a brighter future. But Frances Slanger could not lay her past to rest, and she vowed to help make the world a better place—by joining the military and becoming a nurse.

    Frances, one of the 350,000 American women in uniform during World War II, was among the first nurses to arrive at Normandy beach in June 1944. She and the other nurses of the 45th Field Hospital would soon experience the hardships of combat from a storm-whipped tent amid the anguish of wounded men and the thud of artillery shells.

    Months later, a letter that Frances wrote to the Stars and Stripes newspaper won her heartfelt praise from war-weary GIs touched by her tribute to them. But she never got to read the scores of soldiers' letters that poured in. She was killed by German troops the very next day.

    American Nightingale is the unforgettable, first-ever full-length account of the woman whose brave life stands as a testament to the American spirit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateJun 30, 2008
    ISBN9781416586494
    American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy
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    Bob Welch

    BOB WELCH is a nationally recognized author and journalist whose book about the first World War II nurse to die after the landings at Normandy, American Nightingale, was featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and was an Oregon Book Award finalist. He lives in Oregon.

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      This is poignantly written. I loved it. I've read The Longest Day and other books on World War II, but I had never read about the nurses at Normandy. Inspiring.

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