Facing fearful odds : the siege of Wake Island
Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound psychological effect on the course of that struggle. This was the battle that first raised American spirits in the dark weeks immediately following Pearl Harbor. For sixteen suspenseful days, 449 U.S. Marines, assisted by a handful of sailors and soldiers and a few hundred civilian construction workers, withstood repeated attacks by numerically superior Japanese forces
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1997
xxiii, 727 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780803245556, 0803245556
36180937