Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity (2010)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 9781591148999

Condition: Very Good 

There are some notes on the flyleaf and page numbers have been written on the picture pages. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

When U.S. forces surrendered their tiny Wake Island outpost to the Japanese on December 23, 1941, their real fight for survival was only just beginning. Told here for the first time, Victory in Defeat vividly chronicles the fate of the Wake Island defenders, who endured three-and-a-half years in Japanese POW camps. Drawing on interviews with their captors, dozens of prisoners, and the diaries that they secretly kept, Urwin reveals how the defeated Americans survived in captivity and emerged with a much lower death rate than most other Allied personnel captured in the Pacific. - from the inside flap