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100 1 _aUrwin, Gregory J. W.,
_d1955-
245 1 0 _aVictory in defeat
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 /
_cGregory J.W. Urwin.
260 _aAnnapolis, Md. :
_bNaval Institute Press,
_c2010.
300 _axiv, 478 p. :
_bill., maps.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 _a"Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island -- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture -- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity -- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life -- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru -- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land -- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung -- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung -- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid -- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung -- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures -- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp -- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji -- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan -- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation -- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945 -- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aWake Island, Battle of, Wake Island, 1941.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xConcentration camps
_zJapan.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xConcentration camps
_zChina
_zShanghai.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zWake Island.
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zWake Island
_vBiography.
651 0 _aWake Island
_xHistory, Military
_y20th century.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcsl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=665870
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