Victory in defeat the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 /
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Annapolis, Md. :
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| 100 | 1 | |a Urwin, Gregory J. W., |d 1955- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Victory in defeat |h [electronic resource] : |b the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 / |c Gregory J.W. Urwin. |
| 260 | |a Annapolis, Md. : |b Naval Institute Press, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xiv, 478 p. : |b ill., maps. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes 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 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2011. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Wake Island, Battle of, Wake Island, 1941. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Concentration camps |z Japan. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Concentration camps |z China |z Shanghai. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |z Wake Island. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prisoners of war |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prisoners of war |z Wake Island |v Biography. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Wake Island |x History, Military |y 20th century. | |
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