(10 reviews) Author: Visit Amazon's Agnes Jensen Mangerich Page ISBN : 9780813191577 New from $20.24 Format: PDFReview
"A significant addition to nursing history literature, reminding us that though recognition of their heroism may be short-lived, nurses serving in the military play a vital role during war." -- American Journal of Nursing
"Chronicles on an almost daily basis the activities of the American nurses and medical sergeants as they evaded the Germans, trekked mountain paths, and endured hardships before being led to the Adriatic coast and rescued." -- Army History
"Examines how women avoided capture and successfully negotiated harsh, unknown terrain and foreign cultures in a politically chaotic region." -- Choice
"Illustrates the bravery and courage of the Albanian Underground during the Second World War in it assistance to downed American flyers.... Sheds light on a theater of operations that has received very little coverage by historians in the United States." -- Journal of Slavic Military Studies
"An exciting account of American women's memoirs of their tremendous wartime service to their try." -- McCormick (SC)Messenger
"Albanian Escape is the saga of the most exhausting 800 miles and the longest nine weeks in the lives of 13 American Army nurses, their team of medics and two lieutenants and two sergeants who made up their initial four-man flight crew." -- Stars and Stripes
""Agnes Mangerich's Albanian Escape, which illustrates the bravery and courage of the Albanian underground during the Second World War in its assistance to downed American flyers.""Mangerich's Albanian Escape is a story that had to be told for it deals with a theater of operations that has received very limited coverage by Second World War historians. Unfortunately, due to the onset of the Cold War, the heroics of the Albanian underground have largely been forgotten. Hopefully, Mangerich's work will not be the last on the war in the Balkans." -- Leo J. Daugherty III, World War II Quarterly" -- Leo J. Daughterty, World War II Quarterly
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“A significant addition to nursing history literature, reminding us that though recognition of their heroism may be short-lived, nurses serving in the military play a vital role during war.”—American Journal of Nursing
“Chronicles on an almost daily basis the activities of the American nurses and medical sergeants as they evaded the Germans, trekked mountain paths, and endured hardships before being led to the Adriatic coast and rescued.”—Army History
“An exciting, suspenseful account. American women’s memoirs of their wartime service are rare and one that is about such a remarkable adventure is virtually unique.”—Edward Coffman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky (April 14, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813191572
- ISBN-13: 978-0813191577
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 6 x 8.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines PDF
This book, Albanian Escape, The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines, by Agnes Jensen Mangerich as told to E.M. Monahan and R.L. Neidel is a great story, well written, and historically relevant today. It is relevant to today's debate on women in the military and their ability and stamina to deal with hardship and come out winners. And it certainly has relevance to today's problems in the Balkans. While the story is told from the perspective of one of the nurses, it does deal with the other 12 nurses involved, the medics and the plane crew; the Albanians willing to help them escape German-held Albania and the British SOE and American OSS officers detailed to help them escape. The authors were able to trace down actual reports from the Bari Air Base, Command Communique concerning the incident and reports from Lt. Duffy, SOE and Capt. Smith, OSS, intertwining these very well in the account. One mystery remains in this book--regarding why the pilots did not have the password for the day which prevented them from getting the information they sought from the Bari Air Field about the time they were due there and the copilots unwillingness to talk about it to Jensen when she mentioned to him that the radio operator had told her that the pilots had tried to radio Bari. I also understand that Monahan and Neidel were telling Jensen's story, but it would have been great if some of the others in the group could have been contacted to hear their perspective of this event. Unfortunately, we hear from the Veterans Admiinstration that we are losing 1000 WWII Veterans daily in the U.S. and it is not easy to find such people if they didn't keep in touch. But an awful lot of good stories are going untold.
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