When American planes appear in the sky, she excitedly waves and calls, 'We're here! We're here!' The liberation forces, however, bring with them a threat more dangerous than the Japanese guards, ensuring she will never truly be free of this evil place and all that has happened. For three years, she doubts her survival in the harsh environment, where she faces escalating danger, starvation and loss. Ultimately captured, she is interned at Santo Tomas, a Japanese prison camp in Manila. 2014 Winner-Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award-General Fiction When Margie. 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. Revised edition: This edition of A Pledge of Silenceincludes editorial revisions. Follow Margie whose life changes forever when she is captured and held prisoner of war by enemy forces. At once an epic tale of a nation at war and the deeply personal story of one woman’s intense journey, A Pledge of Silencevividly illustrates the sacrifices the Greatest Generation made for their country, and the price they continued to pay long after the war ended. When not sitting at her computer creating stories, Solomon can be found on the golf course, on the tennis court, or-most naturally-at the beach.A World War II novel based on the American military nurses serving in the Philippines. Her first novel, A Pledge of Silence, won the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for general fiction and was selected as a Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice. She started writing after retiring and moving to the North Carolina coast with her husband. Solomon worked as a researcher and analyst in Michigan's university system and health-care industry. When not sitting at her computer creating stories, Solomon can be found on the golf course, on the tennis court, or-most.

A pledge of silence by flora j solomon