"Pacific Alamo" is a riveting account of one of the legendary battles of World War II, including new information and exclusive interviews with survivors.
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"Pacific Alamo" is a riveting account of one of the legendary battles of World War II, including new information and exclusive interviews with survivors.
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Fine. A leading military historian sheds new light on the battle for Wake Island and the U.S. Marines and civilian construction workers who courageously defended the island.
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I have seen some poorly made movies of this WW II fight. The story teller, Wukovits, gives the reader more than a war story, by adding some character sketches of fighters that tenaciously held Wake Island from being over run. Wake was the next natural barrier to the Japanese grasp of Pacific power control, following the destruction of the fleet at Hawaii.
It is too bad the whipped enemy was so filled with pride that their bloody nose, from the civilian contractors and a few Marines, brought cruel and unusual punishment upon those few defenders. We seem to get in fights with men that have no honor in their defeat, in-spite of Japan's out gunning the defenders.
Surrender is honorable over suicide, in the code of western Christian morality of war. The lack of aviation defense and persistent bombing of the gun placements deteriorated the practicality of further defense of the island and the civilian contractors.
The Asian honor code was a strange concept visited upon the Christian fighter in the Pacific. The enslavement of survivors is still a puzzlement to the western sense of an honorable surrender of arms.
Semper Fidelis, Fratres Aeterni Marines.
ryefish
Apr 3, 2007
Just read it! An important American saga
An excellent and recent recounting of the struggles faced by a hopefully never forgotten saga in both American and Marine Corps history. John Wukovits provides the reader with an assembly of perspectives from the defenders on Wake, the American WWII home front, and the Japanese attackers stitched together with the recent (2002) accounts of the surviving defenders themselves. Wukovits `s addition to the Wake Island literary anthology is a gripping study of the atoll's most historic moments. The story follows selected men, not just Marines, from their stateside civilian lives to their enlistments or private construction contract jobs on Wake. Every tale of Wukovits's interviewees will hopefully make the reader value the many freedoms we take for granted. The book is a fair and noble salute to the men, all the men, who faced off with the Imperial Japanese Navy to lift the United States out of its Pearl Harbor gloom. REVIEW EVERY BOOK YOU READ-AUTHORS DESERVE YOUR OPINIONS TOO!
