Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island
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Tantor Media, Inc., 2021.
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13h 40m 0s
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English
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9781666110470

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bill Sloan., Bill Sloan|AUTHOR., & David Cochran Heath|READER. (2021). Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island . Tantor Media, Inc..

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Bill Sloan, Bill Sloan|AUTHOR and David Cochran Heath|READER. 2021. Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand At Wake Island. Tantor Media, Inc.

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Bill Sloan, Bill Sloan|AUTHOR and David Cochran Heath|READER. Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand At Wake Island Tantor Media, Inc, 2021.

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Bill Sloan, Bill Sloan|AUTHOR, and David Cochran Heath|READER. Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand At Wake Island Tantor Media, Inc., 2021.

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    [synopsis] => On December 8, 1941, just five hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes attacked a remote US outpost in the westernmost reaches of the Pacific. It was the beginning of an incredible sixteen-day fight for Wake Island, a tiny but strategically valuable dot in the ocean. Unprepared for the stunning assault, the small battalion was dangerously outnumbered and outgunned. But they compensated with a surplus of bravery and perseverance, waging an extraordinary battle against all odds.

When it was over, a few hundred American Marines, sailors, and soldiers, along with a small army of heroic civilian laborers, had repulsed enemy forces several thousand strong-but it was still not enough. Among the Marines was twenty-year-old PFC Wiley Sloman. By Christmas Day, he lay semiconscious in the sand, struck by enemy fire. Another day would pass before he was found-stripped of his rifle and his uniform. Shocked to realize he hadn't awakened to victory, Sloman wondered: Had he been given up for dead-and had the Marines simply given up?

In this riveting account, veteran journalist Bill Sloan re-creates this history-making battle, the crushing surrender, and the stories of the uncommonly gutsy men who fought it.
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