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Facing Fearful Odds - The Siege of Wake Island (Paperback)
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Facing Fearful Odds - The Siege of Wake Island (Paperback)
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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 the nation's struggle. This was the battle that first
raised American spirits in the dark weeks 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. Although Wake finally fell on 23 December
1941, its garrison made the Japanese pay an embarrassingly high
price for a tiny coral outpost. Based on interviews with over
seventy American and Japanese participants, the riveting,
you-are-there narrative pulsates with the crack of rifles, the
stutter of machine guns, the roar of cannon, and the concussion of
bombs. This is a military history from the bottom up, an
unforgettable reading experience told from the perspective of
enlisted men and junior officers who served on the front lines.
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