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

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

Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a...
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Author: Mary Breu
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Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW by Breu, Mary

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

$79.25
Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW by Breu, Mary

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

$79.25
Author: Mary Breu
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.



Author: Mary Breu
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 319
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780882409818

About the Author

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.

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