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Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island

Door Chet Cunningham

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#327519-XD22
Titel	Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island
Auteur	Cunningham, Chet
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Carroll & Graf
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0786710969
ISBN13	9780786710966
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In this gritty, poignant, often disturbing oral chronicle of one of the first and most tragic military engagements in World War II, Chet Cunningham gives the gallant U. S. defenders of Wake Island? among them his older brother, Kenneth, then a private in the Marines? their long-overlooked due. For Kenneth Cunningham, a serviceman in the defense battalion stationed on Wake Island, World War II began on December 8, 1941, just five hours after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It ended on December 23. That day the Marines on Wake Island? their twelve Wildcat fighter planes lost, their forces diminished? faced an overwhelming enemy invasion, with the Japanese arriving in so many ships that, as one eyewitness put it, they could have walked from one to the other on the open sea. Private Cunni... (Lees verder)ngham and his fellow Marines fought intrepidly, until their commanding officers ordered them to surrender. Their term in hell, though, had just begun. When the Marines laid down their arms they were stripped naked. With their hands bound, they sat naked in the hot sun all day; at night they shivered in the cold. They suffered endless days at sea jammed in the holds of ships that took them to prison camps in China and Japan. Forty-four months later, liberated at last, they would return home unheralded and largely forgotten. Their often horrific, frequently heroic story now stands recorded, for the most part in the words of the soldiers, sailors, Marines, and civilian personnel who were there, as well as of their wives and widows, in startling, unforgettable detail. Eight pages of black-and-white photographs add to this gripping reconstruction of the sixteen-day battle for Wake Island and its aftermath.
Pagina's	283
Conditie	Goed — Black permamnent marker line on top cut.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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