Barnes & NobleThe Indomitable Florence Finch- The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs by Robert J. Mrazek

An American hero,finally gets her due in this riveting narrative. You will absolutely love Florence Finch- her grit, her compassion, her fight. This isn't just history, she is a woman for our times KEITH O'BRIEN, the New York Times bestselling author of Fly GirlsThe riveting story of an unsung World War II hero who saved countless American lives in the Philippines. When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children. Florence was an unlikely warrior. She relied on her own intelligence and fortitude to survive on her own from the age of seven, facing bigotry as a mixed-race mestiza with the dual heritage of her American serviceman father and Filipina mother. As the war drew ever closer to the Philippines, Florence fell in love with a dashing American naval intelligence agent, Charles "Bing" Smith. In the wake of Bing's sudden death in battle, Florence transformed from a mild-mannered young wife into a fervent resistance fighter.