Last Letters from Attu : The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW

Breu, Mary/ Hudson, Ray (AFT)

Alaska Northwest Books（2013/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 319 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780882409818
• DDC分類 B

Full Description

Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war.

Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup'ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu.

After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II.

Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.

Contents

Preface                                                                           9

To Alaska                                                                      13

Tanana: 1922-1923                                                         27

Tanana: 1923-1930                                                         37

Tanana, Tatitlek, and Old Harbor: 1928-1932                    53

Prom Kodiak to Kipnuk: 1932                                         70

Kipnuk Culture: 1932                                                      79

Letters from Kipnuk: 1932-1933                                      91

Kipnuk School: 1932-1934                                             112

Letters from Kipnuk: 1934-1937                                     119

 

Old Harbor: 1937-1941                                                  135  

Attu: 1941-1942                                                            148

Invasion: 1942                                                              167

The Australians: January-July 1942                                181

Bund Hotel, Yokohama: July 1942                                 193

Yokohama Yacht Club: 1942-1943                                 203

Yokohama Yacht Club: 1943-1944                                 213

Totsuka: 1944-1945                                                       227

Rescue: August 31, 1945                                              245

Return to the United States: September 1945                 255

Home: 1945-1965                                                         266

Afterword by Ray Hudson                                             279

Acknowledgements                                                      281

Notes                                                                          283

Bibliography                                                                305

Index                                                                           307

About the author                                                          317

About the Afterword writer                                            319