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Victory in Defeat

Download or Read eBook Victory in Defeat PDF written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Victory in Defeat
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Publisher : Naval Inst Press
Total Pages : 478
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ISBN-10 : 1591148995
ISBN-13 : 9781591148999
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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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