Elizabeth M. Norman
Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath
A new book by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman
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Here is the story of the worst defeat in American military history, the four-month fight for the tiny peninsula of Bataan in the Philippine Islands - the first major land battle for America in World War II. On April 9, 1942, more than 76,000 men under American command surrendered to their Japanese captors, who set them walking sixty-six miles to prison camp, a notorious walk that came to be known as "The Bataan Death March."
"Tears In the Darkness" is history written as story, thousands of sources and hundreds of interviews carefully woven into a tight narrative that recreates those dramatic days and the men - Americans, Japanese and Filipinos - who lived them.
Degrees Held
- Ph.D.
New York University:School of Education, Nursing, Arts and Health Professions
1986
Dissertation: “Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam.” - M.A.
New York University:School of Education, Nursing, Arts and Health Professions
1977
- B.S.
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
1973
Awards
- 2009 : Best Books of 2009, Editor's Picks Amazon.com, "Tears in the Darkness."
- 2009 : July 26, 2009 #8 NYTimes Non-Fiction Best Seller List. "Tears in the Darkness,"
- 2009 : Philippine Embassy Washington D.C. Certificate of Appreciation.
- 2004 : Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Hall of Distinguished Alumni Award.
- 2003 : University of California San Francisco, Commencement Speaker.
- 2001 : Indiana State University, Distinguished Lecturer, Terra Haute, Indiana.
- 2001 : AACN. Seventh Annual John P. McGovern Award
- 2001 : University of Virginia. Eighth Annual Agnes Dillon Award.
- 1999 : Lavinia L. Dock Award for Outstanding Historical Scholarship. AAHN.
- 1999 : AAN. National Media Award.
- 1995 : International Public Print Media Award, Sigma Theta Tau.
- 1993 : Certificate of Appreciation. New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
- 1992 : Book of the Year. American Journal of Nursing
- 1990 : Official Commendation for Military Nursing Research. Department of the Army.
Publications
- Curriculum Vitae (view)
- Norman, M., Norman E., Tears In The Darkness: The Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath.New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. June 2009. Translated into Japanese, Mandarin, Czech.
- Norman, E. (2000). We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Atria Publishing. Hardcover, 1999, Random House, New York. In print 2009.
- Norman, E. (1990). Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. In print, 2009.
- Norman E. (2001). “The Nurses Captured on Bataan.” In Brian Lamb (Ed.). Booknotes, Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events that Shaped Our Country New York: Public Affairs, 251-258. In print, 2009
- Norman, E. (2006). "The Challenge of Historical Research." In Geri Lo-Biondo-Wood & Judi Haber (Eds.)Research Methods, Critical Appraisal and Utilization. Philiadelphia, Pennsylvania: C.V. Mosby, 436-437.
- Norman, E., & Angell, D. (1999). Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole Survivor of the 1942 Massacre of Australian Nurses. NHR 7, 97-112.
- Norman, E., & Eifried, S. (1995). How Did They All Survive? An Analysis of American Nurses' Experiences in Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camps. NHR, 3, 105-127.
- Norman, E. (1995). After the Casualties: The Effect of Working in the Vietnam War on Nurses' Professional Identity and Career Decisions. The Journal of Military Nursing and Research, 1 (3), 25-29.
- dePaula Lima, E., Norman, E., & dePaula Lima A. (2005). Translation and Adaptation of the Social Support Network Inventory in Brazil. JNS, 37(3), 258-260.
Research Interests
long term outcomes of trauma and war american professions employing new technology in qualitative methods historical inquiry cross-cultural historical research qualitative methodologies women in the military prisoners of war
Courses
- E10.2140.002 Qualitative Research I
- E33.2190. Research Methods (qualitative)
- E10.2138 Writing Empiric Research
- E10.3001 Dissertation Proposal Seminar