TY  - BOOK
AU  - Urwin,Gregory J.W.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Victory in defeat: the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 
AV  - D767.99.W3 U79 2010eb
U1  - 940.54/7252092273 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Annapolis, Md.
PB  - Naval Institute Press
KW  - Wake Island, Battle of, Wake Island, 1941
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
KW  - Concentration camps
KW  - Japan
KW  - China
KW  - Shanghai
KW  - Wake Island
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; "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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -