Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945

Urwin, Gregory J. W.

ISBN 10: 1591148995 / ISBN 13: 9781591148999

Verlag: US Naval Institute Press, 2010

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In a book that draws on interviews with American POWs, as well as their Japanese captors, and diaries secretly kept by prison-camp inmates, the author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island offers a moving history of the incarceration of the American defenders of Wake Island after their surrender to the Japanese during World War II.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Gregory J. W. Urwin is Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he specializes in American and British military affairs. He is the author of eight other books, including Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island, which won the Gen. Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. He lives in Doylestown, PA.

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Titel: Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders...
Verlag: US Naval Institute Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New
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