Mary Breu

Last Letters from Attu (eBook, ePUB)

The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780882408521
• Artikelnr.: 49549622

Autorenporträt

At the conclusion of her own thirty-four year teaching career, Mary Breu set out to write the story of her great-aunt, Etta Jones. After doing extensive research, Mary used Etta's letters, old photographs, Etta's unpublished manuscript written after her captivity, and her research to write this book. She holds a bachelor's and master's degrees. She lives with her husband Jerry in South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface                                                                        
  9
To
Alaska                                                                     
13
Tanana: 1922-1923                                                        
27
Tanana: 1923-1930                                                        
37
Tanana, Tatitlek, and Old Harbor: 1928-1932                    53
Prom Kodiak to Kipnuk: 1932                                         70
Kipnuk Culture: 1932                                                     
79
Letters from Kipnuk: 1932-1933                                      91
Kipnuk School: 1932-1934                                             112
Letters from Kipnuk: 1934-1937                                     119
 
Old Harbor: 1937-1941                                                  135
 
Attu: 1941-1942                                                      
     148
Invasion: 1942                                                             
167
The Australians: January-July 1942                                181
Bund Hotel, Yokohama: July 1942                                 193
Yokohama Yacht Club: 1942-1943                                 203
Yokohama Yacht Club: 1943-1944                                 213
Totsuka: 1944-1945                                                      
227
Rescue: August 31, 1945                                              245
Return to the United States: September 1945                 255
Home: 1945-1965                                                         266
Afterword by Ray Hudson                                             279
Acknowledgements                                                      281
Notes                                                              
           283
Bibliography                                                               
305
Index                                                               
           307
About the author                                                         
317
About the Afterword writer                                            319