A Pledge of Silence

By: Flora J. Solomon

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

2014 Winner - Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award - General Fiction

When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be assigned to Manila - the Pearl of the Orient. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe - the island is fortified, the airbases are ample, and the Filipino troops are well-trained.

But on December 8, 1941, her dreamworld shatters. Captured by the invading Japanese, Margie ends up interned at Santa Tomas, an infamous prison camp. There, for the next three years, while enduring brutality and starvation, her bravery, resourcefulness, and faith are tested and her life forever changed.

At once an epic tale of a nation at war and the deeply personal story of one woman's journey through hell, A Pledge of Silence vividly illustrates the sacrifices the Greatest Generation made for their country, and the price they continued to pay long after the war was over.

©2015 Flora J. Solomon (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Loved it!

This was a wonderful book. The insights to PTSD were spot on and the story was informing and interesting. I would highly recommend this book! It's in my top five.

Good read for WWII stories

Really like stories set in this time period, and this one was set not in Europe, but in the Japanese area of the war. Sometimes performed a bit overly dramatically, but overall enjoyable.

Overwhelmed with warm & appreciative emotions!

I feel like I have been on an unbelievable roller coaster ride. This is a beautifully written and narrated book about a part of WW II I never knew about. The main character’s experiences at that time and the course her life took was amazing. I lost a lot of sleep listening to this and it was well worth it!!

Narrator

It was a good book. The story line was good. But the narrator’s voice when he Margie was super annoying.

Poor narration

Terrible narrator. Great story but hard to listen to with her ridiculous made up voices for the characters. The accents she tried to use for different characters were like nails on a chalk board. I’ll have to finish book in written form

good

the story was predictable but enjoyable nonetheless. paints a vivid image WWII and it's horrors.

Great book!!

This was a great Audio. Sometimes when you think you got it pretty tough strap your boots up and realize you don’t have it to bad at all!! Brought some tears to my eyes thank you very much for the experience Doug.

A pledge of silence

I read so many book s that it's hard to find a really good read, well l got lucky finding this book amazing l couldn't read it fast enough.

Margie Had A Big Adventure—Amazing Story

Historical fiction is my favorite and this novel doesn’t disappoint. It is about the nurses in WWII and the Philippines. We know the brutality of the Japanese but when a group of doctors and nurses are captured by the Japanese and held in internment camps where food is limited and where their every move is watched, you realize how much freedom is worthy. Margie Bauer grew up in a small town in Michigan, where she intended to marry her high school boyfriend, Abe. When the war begins, he goes to pilot training and is smitten with the flying bug. Margie goes to nurses school and graduated as an R.N. She winds up at Walter Reed and ultimately overseas in The Philippines. She is the main character in this story. This is a tale of war. The nurses are the overlooked group, after all the soldiers are the ones who are damaged. Both soldiers and nurses returning home suffer from traumatic flash backs, not as understood in 1945 as in later years. The book grabs the reader and doesn’t let go. Even after reading the last page, the tale will haunt you because the events may not kill but they change the lives of everyone living them. These catastrophic events of war change the person and returning home isn’t always as peaceful. The family is happy to have the soldier/nurse home but they can’t possibly understand the changes. I read and listened. Kate Rudd was a terrific narrator.

An exceptional read

This is the most captivating book I have probably ever read. It was also the most emotional book I probably ever read . I listened to it by one of my favorite narrators, Kate Rudd. I listened to this Non-Stop. I classify this book as historical fiction and encouraged others to read it, lest we never forget.