03071nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10454911 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100604s2010 mduab sb 001 0deng d 2010022123 9781591148999 9781612510040 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)715183919 powk--- a-ja--- n-us--- D767.99.W3 U79 2010eb 940.54/7252092273 22 Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955- Victory in defeat [electronic resource] : the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 / Gregory J.W. Urwin. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 2010. xiv, 478 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. "Issue in doubt" : the siege of Wake Island -- "The emperor has ... presented you with your lives" : the shock of capture -- "Very odd people indeed" : the first twenty-four hours in captivity -- "The Japanese continue to treat us with respect" : a deceptively gentle transition to POW life -- "A real hell ship" : from Wake Island to Yokohama on the Nitta Maru -- "Never had I felt so desolate or so weary" : from murder at sea to despair on land -- "The most painful days we spent in prison camp" : hitting bottom at Woosung -- "The Japanese Army ... will improve your conditions" : turning the corner at Woosung -- "Without Red Cross help ... we would never have pulled through" : the impact of outside aid -- "I thought they handled themselves reasonably well" : Japanese-POW relations at Woosung -- "You God damn Americans don't understand anything" : strains, outrages, and departures -- "This camp is the best one that the Japs have" : a new commandant and a new camp -- A hellacious damn deal till we finished" : pushed to the edge on Mount Fuji -- "Optimism ... is running high" : hope revives at Kiangwan -- "The pleasure of raising our flag over the enemy's homeland" : to Japan and liberation -- "98 US PW, 5-10-43" : the Wake Island diaspora, 1942-1945 -- "We had a bond there that's still going" : why so many came home. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Wake Island, Battle of, Wake Island, 1941. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Japan. World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps China Shanghai. World War, 1939-1945 Wake Island. Prisoners of war United States Biography. Prisoners of war Wake Island Biography. Wake Island History, Military 20th century. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10454911 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 227207 227207