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. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe-the island is fortified, the airbases are ample, and the Filipino troops are training intensively.ĭecember 8, 1941, her dream world shatters. 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 Margie whose life changes forever when she is captured and held prisoner of war by enemy forces. She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm.A World War II novel based on the American military nurses serving in the Philippines. Can Gina keep this delicate operation running long enough to outlast the enemy, or is she on a sure path to defeat that will put her family, her freedom, or even her life at risk?īut operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm. There, she forges a new identity and opens a nightclub, where seductive beauties sing, dance, and tease secrets out of high-ranking Japanese officers while the wildly successful club and its enemy patrons help fund the resistance.īut operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese.

When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture-or worse.ĭesperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila.

From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines.ĭecember 1941.

A Pledge of Silence by Flora J. Solomon