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Attu boy : a young Alaskan's WWII memoir /
In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corralling all survivors into a freighter bound for Ja...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fairbanks, AK :
University of Alaska Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; Preface by Brenda Maly; Introduction; A Young Boy's Experience during World War II; Attu before the War; Prewar Fears and Clues about Japanese Invasion; The Japanese Invasion, June 7, 1942; Life as a Japanese POW; Return and Resettlement; Nick's Connection to Japan; Reflections on Life in Atka; Growing Up and Going to School; Left Behind by the Military; Working Life; Hunting, Fishing, and Wildlife; Atka Is Far Away from Anywhere Else; Learning from the Elders; Relatives from Attu; Commentary and First-Person Accounts; Attu before the War.
- Prewar Fears and Clues about Japanese InvasionThe Japanese Invasion, June 7, 1942; Life as a Japanese POW; Return and Resettlement; Nick's Connection to Japan; Epilogue; Appendix: Attu Prehistory and History; Bibliography.