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Given up for dead : America's heroic stand at Wake Island / Bill Sloan.
Van Pelt Library D767.99.W3 S56 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sloan, Bill, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Marine Corps.
- Wake Island, Battle of, Wake Island, 1941.
- United States. Marine Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 412 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- "Given Up for Dead" is the gripping, true story of America's first World War II battle--a rarely reported test of wills that erupted just five hours after the bombing of Pearl harbor. Two 8-page photo inserts.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [392]-399) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0553803026
- OCLC:
- 52706130
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