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Victory in defeat : the Wake Island defenders in captivity /
Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines,...
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2011.
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| 520 | |a Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian contractors in captivity. In addition to exhaustive archival research, he interviewed dozens of POWs and even some of their Japanese captors. He also had access to diaries secretly kept by the prisoners. This information has allowed Urwin to provide a nuanced look at. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. "issue in doubt": the siege of wake island; 2. "the emperor has ... presented you with your lives" the shock of capture; 3. "very odd people indeed" the first twenty-four hours in captivity; 4. "the japanese continue to treat us with respect" a deceptively gentle transition to POW life; 5. "a real hell ship" from wake island to yokohama on the nitta maru; 6. "never had i felt so desolate or so weary"from murder at sea to despair on land; 7. "the most painful days we spent in prison camp" hitting bottom at woosung. | |
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