Victory in Defeat

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Author	: Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher	: Naval Inst Press
Total Pages	: 478
Release	: 2010
ISBN-10	: 1591148995
ISBN-13	: 9781591148999
Rating	: 4/5 (95 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Victory in Defeat by : Gregory J. W. Urwin

Book excerpt: In a book that draws on interviews with American POWs, as well as their Japanese captors, and diaries secretly kept by prison-camp inmates, the author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island offers a moving history of the incarceration of the American defenders of Wake Island after their surrender to the Japanese during World War II.

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