Last Letters from Attu - The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW (Hardcover)

Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.

General

Imprint:	Alaska Northwest Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	September 2013
Authors:	Mary Breu
Afterword by:	Ray Hudson
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	319
ISBN-13:	978-0-88240-981-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-88240-981-6
Barcode:	9780882409818

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