Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital, The Woman with a Purple Heart is an inspiring WWII novel of heroic leadership, courage, and friendship that also exposes a shocking and shameful side of history.
Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her?
In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The others on her transport plane are thrilled to work in paradise, but Annie sees her new duty station as the Army''s way of holding the door open to her retirement. But serving her country is her calling and she will go wherever she is told.
On December 7, Annie''s on her way to work when the first Japanese Zero fighter plane flies low over Hickam''s Parade Ground. The death and destruction that follow leave her no time to process what''s happening. She rallies her nurses, and they work to save as man
