The Indomitable Florence Finch by Robert J Mrazek
epub | 18.75 MB | English | Author :Robert J. Mrazek | B07YSMX5B7 | 2020 | Hachette Books

Book Description :

"An American hero-long forgotten-finally gets her due in this riveting narrative. You will absolutely love Florence Finch: her grit, her compassion, her fight. This isn't just history; she is a woman for our times."

-Keith O'Brien, the New York Times bestselling author of Fly Girls


The riveting story of an unsung World War II hero who saved countless American lives in the Philippines, told by an award-winning military historian.

When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children.

Florence was an unlikely warrior. She relied on her own...

Category : | Intelligence & Espionage, Political Intelligence, Biographies of World War II