Last letters from Attu : the true story of Etta Jones, Alaska pioneer and Japanese P.O.W.
"Etta Jones was not a soldier. She was not a spy. She was a teacher on the remote Aleutian island of Attu. In 1922, she had agreed to move to Alaska from the East Coast with her sister, promising to stay one year. But during that year, this forty-something nurse met a man and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years taught in remote Alaskan villages. Their lives changed forever when the Japanese invaded Attu and Etta became a prisoner of war - taken from American soil to Japan and given up for dead. Mary Breu, Etta Jones's great-niece, gathered letters from her aunt, an unpublished memoir, and her own extensive research to piece together this amazing account. It is a gripping story of a courageous, loving, and generous woman from New Jersey who embraced life against all odds."--Page [4] cover
Biographies
319 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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Preface
To Alaska
Tanana: 1922-1923
Tanana: 1923-1930
Tanana, Tatitlek, and Old Harbor: 1928-1932
From Kodiak to Kipnuk: 1932
Kipnuk Culture: 1932
Letters from Kipnuk: 1932-1933
Kipnuk School: 1932-1934
Letters from Kipnuk: 1934-1937
Old Harbor: 1937-1941
Attu: 1941-1942
Invasion: 1942
The Australians: January-July 1942
Bund Hotel, Yokohama: July 1942
Yokohama Yacht Club: 1942-1943
Yokohama Yacht Club: 1943-1944
Totsuka: 1944-1945
Rescue: August 31, 1945
Return to the United States: September 1945
Home: 1945-1965
Afterword by Ray Hudson
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the Afterword Writer