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 herIn 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 Armys 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 Annies on her way to work when the first Japanese Zero fighter plane flies low over Hickams Parade Ground. The death and destruction that follow leave her no time to process whats happening. She rallies her nurses and they work to save as many lives as they can. But soon their small hospital is overwhelmed. Annie drives into Honolulu to gather supplies nurses and several women who will donate blood. However the nurses are Japanese Americans and the blood donors are prostitutes.Under Annies leadership and working together in unexpected ways they make it through that horrific day when one of the Japanese American nurses and Annies friend Kay is arrested as a suspected subversive. As Hickam tries to recover Annie works to find her friend and return Kay to her family. But Annies love for her country is put to the test. How can she reconcile the American bravery and resilience she saw on December 7 with the prejudice and injustice she witnesses just a few months later