Memories of War: Micronesians in the Pacific War

by Lin Poyer, Laurence Marshall Carucci, Suzanne Falgout, et al.

Book Overview

Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. Whether they spent the war in bomb shelters, in sweet potato fields under the guns of Japanese soldiers, or in their homes on atolls sheltered from the war, Micronesians who survived those years know that their peoples passed through a major historical transformation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831306
• ISBN13: 9780824831301
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"