![]() ![]() Revised edition: This edition of A Pledge of Silence includes editorial revisions. ![]() ![]() Her first novel, A Pledge of Silence, won the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel. At once an epic tale of a nation at war and the deeply personal story of one woman’s intense journey, A Pledge of Silence vividly illustrates the sacrifices the Greatest Generation made for their country, and the price they continued to pay long after the war ended. When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be assigned to Manila - the Pearl of the Orient. Shop the latest titles by Flora J Solomon at Alibris including hardcovers. Ultimately captured, she is interned in Santo Tomas, a Japanese prison camp, where for three years she endures escalating danger, starvation, and loss. The US Army evacuates to the Bataan Peninsula, where she cares for the wounded soldiers in a field hospital, and then in a catacomb of tunnels on Corregidor Island. /rebates/2fp2fPledge-Silence2fFlora-J-Solomon2f9781477820865&.com252fp252fPledge-Silence252fFlora-J-Solomon252f978147782086526afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. ![]() On December 8, 1941, her dreamworld shatters when the Japanese invade the Philippines. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe, trusting the island is fortified and the Filipino troops are well trained. 2014 Winner - Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award - General Fiction When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be sent to Manila, the Pearl of the Orient. ![]()
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