Mary Breu

Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese P.O.W

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Etta Jones was not a soldier or a spy. She was a teacher on the remote Aleutian island of Attu. She and her sister moved to Alaska in 1922 from the East coast of the USA. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old easterner met a man and fell in love. She married and for nearly twenty years taught in remote Alaskan villages including their last posting on Attu Island at the far end of the Aleutian island chain. Etta's life changed forever on that Sunday when the Japanese invaded Attu and Etta became a prisoner of war. She was taken from American soil to Japan and given up for dead. This is the story of bra… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hudson, Ray (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-88240-810-1
EAN: 9780882408101
Produktnummer: 4556557
Verlag: Alaska Northwest Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 295 S.
Masse: H21.3 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.6 cm 399 g
Gewicht: 399

Über den Autor

At the conclusion of her own thirty-four year teaching career, Mary Breu set out to write the story of her great-aunt, Etta Jones. After doing extensive research, Mary used Etta's letters, old photographs, Etta's unpublished manuscript written after her captivity, and her research to write this book. She holds a bachelor's and master's degrees. She lives with her husband Jerry in South Carolina.