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that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical
documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved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: |
December 2009 |
First published: |
November 2009 |
Authors: |
Mary Breu
|
Afterword by: |
Ray Hudson
|
Dimensions: |
213 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-88240-810-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-88240-810-0 |
Barcode: |
9780882408101 |
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