Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse Book

I'm of two minds about this book. It was certainly a rarity among books for young girls at the time to see such fairly realistic depictions of battle scenes, and as I was reading it I was once again gratified that Cherry and her nurses are never portrayed as damsels in distress. They are out there in the field of battle, dodging shells and grenades, and risking their lives like any soldiers. They are treated as courageous, intelligent women, except by one or two nasty old fossil characters, who are rather a blight on the book. Cherry seems to always run up against these types. I also found myself wincing a bit at the "monstrous Japs" of the time and genre. There's no getting around historical events and attitudes , though. It's worth a read, but it may make you uncomfortable here and there.