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 After doing extensive research, Mary used Etta's letters, old photographs, Etta's unpublished manuillegalscript written after her captivity, and her research to write this book.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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
nPreface 9
nTo Alaska 13
nTanana: 1922-1923 27
nTanana: 1923-1930 37
nTanana, Tatitlek, and Old Harbor: 1928-1932 53
nFrom Kodiak to Kipnuk: 1932 70
nKipnuk Culture: 1932 79
nLetters from Kipnuk: 1932-1933 91
nKipnuk School: 1932-1934 112
nLetters from Kipnuk: 1934-1937 119
nOld Harbor: 1937-1941 135
nAttu: 1941-1942 148
nInvasion: 1942 167
nThe Australians: January-July 1942 181
nBund Hotel, Yokohama: July 1942 193
nYokohama Yacht Club: 1942-1943 203
nYokohama Yacht Club: 1943-1944 213
nTotsuka: 1944-1945 227
nRescue: August 31, 1945 245
nReturn to the United States: September 1945 255
nHome: 1945-1965 266
nAfterword by Ray Hudson 279
nAcknowledgements 281
nNotes 283
nBibliography 305
nIndex 307
nAbout the Author 317
nAbout the Afterword Writer 319
Klappentext
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Using deillegalscriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuillegalscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.
