Facing fearful odds : the siege of Wake Island
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D767.99.W3 U78 1997
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D767.99.W3 U78 1997
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | D767.99.W3 U78 1997 | On Shelf |
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xxiii, 727 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 681-707) and index.
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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 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.
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Although Wake finally fell on 23 December 1941, its garrison made the Japanese pay an embarrassingly high price for a tiny coral outpost.
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committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program AEU HathiTrust Shared Print commitment 2017
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SACFinal081324
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Urwin, G. J. W. (1997). Facing fearful odds: the siege of Wake Island . University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-. 1997. Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Urwin, Gregory J. W., 1955-. Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Urwin, G. J. W. (1997). Facing fearful odds: the siege of wake island. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Urwin, Gregory J. W. Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
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