Ultimately captured, she is interned at Santo Tomas, a Japanese prison camp in Manila. With the Nips at her heels, she withdraws to an underground tunnel-hospital on the heavily fortified island of Corregidor. Army evacuates all personnel to the jungles of Bataan, where Margie tends to wounded, sick, and dying soldiers in open-air field hospitals. Racing to stay ahead of the enemy, the U.S. Japanese bombers roar into the Philippines, turning everything in their paths to smoldering piles of rubble. December 8, 1941, her dream world shatters. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe–the island is fortified, the airbases are ample, and the Filipino troops are training intensively. She falls in love with the beauty of the island and a carefree social whirl of bridge games, pool parties, and dancing under twinkle-light stars with handsome young doctors. She delights in her assignment to Manila, the Pearl of the Orient. January of 1941, Margie Bauer is called to active duty in the Army Nurse Corps of the United States Army Reserves. Follow a young woman whose life changes forever when she is captured and held prisoner of war by enemy forces. You can read this before A Pledge of Silence PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī World War II novel based on the plight of American military nurses serving in the Philippines. Solomon which was published in January 1st 2013. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Pledge of Silence written by Flora J.
I just want to stop the audio so she can catch her breath.Brief Summary of Book: A Pledge of Silence by Flora J. It prevents the listener from appreciating the story when she pushes air out of her lungs harshly to get that helpless breathy tone. From now on, I will avoid all books with this narrator. I wonder if the writer intended to have a breathy, weak, pathetic female antagonist, I doubt it. I've listened to audio books recorded by famous actors/actresses that do not over-act this way. She tries too hard and it turns out offensive. When I read a book I do imagine a small change in voice for characters but she's trying to turn it in to a soap opera. She has a nice voice for the main narration of the story but her over-acting of the characters is distracting. Whenever a woman is in a challenging situation the narrator blows out the most dramatic and helpless voice she can muster. I tried to like this book because the story is interesting but the narrator's panicked, breathy interpretation of female characters is too degrading. This narrator portrays women as weak & frantic.
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