Hard Cover
1944 · New York
by Wells, Helen
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x4x0. Front jacket flap lists through Island Nurse, inside list through Island Nurse. Jacket spine lightly foxed. 1944 Hard Cover. v, 213 pp. Red tweed boards. Black-and-white frontispiece. In Chief Nurse, Cherry is whisked off to a new assignment on an island in the Pacific close to the battlefront - as Acting Chief Nurse! Colonel Pillsbee thinks she is too "young and pretty" to successfully supervise sixty nurses and 200 corpsmen. Can she do it? For the first time Cherry and the nurses of the Spencer unit have to work under fire, in a makeshift tent hospital uncomfortably (truncated)