Unfortunately, there are not very many books providing this sort of information. The book presents a great picture of the war and what things were really like. She is a role model for anyone to follow, and today, many young girls need such a role model. I am more than proud to be a part of her legacy in the military, even though I was not a nurse or in combat or a POW. Margie is a strong woman, much like many of the other women with whom I served in the military. Once home, she suffers from what we now call PTSD, and, because of a paper she signed, cannot really divulge what occurred during her captivity, making treatment that much harder. However, once liberated there are more ghosts to haunt her, as those she should trust betray her. Then, she is captured and held as a POW for three years, and suffers humiliation, starvation and abuse at the hands of her guards. There is the surgical tent, the open bay area for the wounded, the never-ending fear of what might occur. However, once the attack at Pearl Harbor occurs, things change dramatically, and her duty becomes what we might picture as combat life. Initially, her duty is filled with all that you might associate with a peacetime military, officers clubs, night life, easier duty, etc. Margie is a fictional nurse, who enters the Naval Reserve and is called up during WWII to serve in the Philippines. She's risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm.As a female Army veteran, I love reading about other female military vets, and this story is so astounding that I am sure it will stay with me for a long time, if not forever. There, she forges a new identity and opens a nightclub, where seductive beauties sing, dance, and tease secrets out of high-ranking Japanese officers while the wildly successful club and its enemy patrons help fund the resistance.But operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture-or worse.Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila.

War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines.December 1941.

A Pledge of Silence by Flora J. Solomon