Reviews for Healing the Generations A History of Physical Therapy & the American Physical Therapy Associ...

The average rating for Healing the Generations A History of Physical Therapy & the American Physical Therapy Associ... based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-28 00:00:00 Miguel Guerrero This is the story of the battle of Wake Island and the 44 months the survivors spent in POW camps as told by the marines and sailors and airmen. The little "connective tissue" in the book is provided by Chet Cunningham, who embarked on the project to learn what happened to his brother. Each entry is from a few sentences to a few pages. Some of the stories are as simple as "I don't like to think about it". Many of the contributors have multiple stories. Most are from correspondence between Cunningham and the survivors and some was written in the months after the events. All stories are in the first person. Because it is a collection of stories from many people, there is necessarily a lot of repetition for the combat. Everybody went through the same events - the bombing, the first invasion attempt, the surrender. But each tells the common events from a slightly different perspective. I would have liked to have "heard" from some of the civilians who were there. I'm sure their stories were no less interesting. The only significant mention of the civilians, other than a few who manned gun crews, was the murder of the 98. Obviously none of them could tell their stories, but there were a thousand others. Recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-28 00:00:00 Ulrich Niem�ller Unfortunately, this book HAD to be written. Want to know what a POW from Wake Island went through? They fought a brave fight on Wake then surrendered - then became a POW. This book was basically written by the POW's and a sad one at that. A must read for those that want or need to know about the POW's that were under the control by the Japanese during WW11.