Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island

by Gregory J.W. Urwin

Book Overview

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 the nation's struggle. This was the battle that first raised American spirits in the dark weeks 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803295626
• ISBN13: 9780803295629
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Bison
• Length: 754 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"