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No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II Paperback – May 31, 1997

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No Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation―all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor. This unique oral-history collection makes available to readers an important counterpoint to the seemingly endless discussions of strategy, planning, and troop movement that often characterize discussions of the Second World War.

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    087013440X
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Diane Burke Fessler is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, Tempe. She is Senior Editor at Primer Publishers.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Michigan State University Press; First Edition (May 31, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 087013440X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0870134401
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Diane Burke Fessler wrote her first book, No Time For Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses of World War II, to honor the nurses of the 1940s. Her aunt was an army nurse who wrote letters every week from her stations overseas and led Fessler to want to write about her. After attending a reunion of the 166th General Hospital in 1989 with "Auntie Raine" (Lorraine Krause Taylor), she interviewed and wrote the oral histories of more than 200 nurses, whose stories had not been told. Covering all theaters of war, the nurses told of their overseas assignments, including the first flight nurses, women at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines, and African-American nurses who served in a segregrated U.S. Army.

Diane Burke Fessler grew up in Chicago, graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Journalism, and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she is an editor for Primer Publishers. She contributed a chapter about women in Arizona during the 1940s to a book titled Arizona Goes To War: The Home Front and Front Lines During World War II, published by University of Arizona Press.

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lyn0
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing read
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020
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Bought the book as a requirement for class, keeping it for it's inspiration.

Such a great collection of biographies and inspiring women who've helped paved the way. It intricately organized in such entertaining ways. The women featured are super humble, full of integrity and inspiration for a nursing student.
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Norm Haskett
5.0 out of 5 stars WWII Military Nurses Recount Their "Role of a Lifetime"
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As an historian with a website focused on World War II-related events, I continually scour similar websites and purchase or read books by leading authorities, memoirs by those who lived through the period, and so on. One of my favorite purchases is Diane Burke Fessler’s No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II. Her book is a fascinating collection of more than a hundred oral histories she gathered from U.S. military nurses who served in practically every theater of that world conflict. No Time for Fear is a first-person account of individual Army and Navy nurses whose courage, devotion to duty, hopes, fears, and daily observations and activities turned them into heroes—yes, heroes, because these plucky military nurses were volunteers, some of whom lost their lives in service to their country or were the recipients of service medals and awards. Nurses we learn served on the front lines (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, or Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines) or cared for the sick and injured as captives in wretched POW camps; most, however, served behind the lines in field hospitals, on offshore hospital ships, on medical air evacuation aircraft, or stateside. For people like me who want to “hear” authentic voices and see images of those who were in the thick of things, who played a “role of a lifetime” in defeating Axis tyranny, then you can’t do better than to own or read No Time for Fear.—Norm Haskett
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well done - author and nurses!!!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2016
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Brief anadotes of the American nurses during World War II. Lots of stories of hope, work, tragedies, and successes. I wish some of the stories were longer, but this is a nice tribute to a lot of brave women. The book takes you all over the fighting front and all over the world. From air battles to POWs, from Europe to Australia, and from the beginning of the war to victory. Definitely deserves an A++++++++++
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5.0 out of 5 stars I so enjoyed this book, IMHO, any red blooded woman would.
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019
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These women were so tenacious, loyal, patient, kind, loving and strong. Great role models for anyone who is stuck in a less than perfect situation, and theirs was oft far less than perfect. Kudos to the author / collector of these women's memoirs. Very well done :)
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Diane
5.0 out of 5 stars WWII Nurses
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2017
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I loved this book! I will read it more than once. The stories were honest, and give the best example of what these ladies went through.
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Mamma K 1947
4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy read.
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2015
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This book is a compilation of first person accounts by women who served in the military during WWII. It opens with women on duty in either Hawaii or the Philippines on December 7, 1941 and expands from there. Although many of the women whose stories are recounted here are nurses, the book also includes first person accounts by women in other branches of the service. As a Vietnam Veteran (Army Nurse Corps) I know memories fade with time, mine surely have. So I was grateful to be able to read these "I was there" accounts. At the same time the arm chair historian in me was disappointed the book was not more in depth, allowing each woman to tell more of her story. Nevertheless this book fills an important spot in the history of WWII because it shows the degree which women served their country in this extraordinarily important time. It also foreshadows the enormous changes in women's rights and work experiences resulting from their incredible contributions to the war effort, It is an easy read well worth the time!
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Ralph G.
5.0 out of 5 stars No Time For Fear
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It seems , most of these women keep their sense of humour. An yes, you can build another family in the military.
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Barbara Besler
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014
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I originally purchased the book because the author dedicated a whole chapter to the 166th General Hospital, where my Mother served during WW II. I read the entire book, of course. If you want to be inspired, touched and entertained by the true-life memoirs of heroic women during dangerous times, this is the book for you!
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