![]() Farrell mailed her letters and traveled to interview her before she died last year.Īs she entrenched herself in research, Farrell heard story after story that horrified her - tales of bombings and mass carnage, of violence and steadfast courage. And she discovered the last living nurse - then in her late 90s and still living in her home in New Jersey. ![]() She contacted those books' authors and found that relatives of two of the nurses referenced were living in the Seattle area. She found that two books had been written about the nurses, but nothing that was written for a young audience. ![]() And I was like, 'How did they do it?'"įarrell immediately put aside the novel she had been working on and started looking into the references in her cousin's paper - which became the basis for her just-released book Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific. "I had only heard horror stories of men in POW camps and how awful that was. ![]() "And I think right away - my interest in history and my news nose - I was like, 'Wow, I can't believe this is true, and that everyone doesn't know about it.' ![]()
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