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Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska's WWII Invasion
221 pp.
| Scholastic |
October, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-0-545-29654-0$16.99
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Attempting to create a diversion from their 1942 attack on Midway, the Japanese forces invaded the Aleutian Islands, occupying two islands and taking prisoners back to Japan. The facts of the story are undeniably gripping, and Seiple retells individual incidents with immediacy, but the structure of the narrative is disjointed and hard to follow. Extensive source notes are appended. Ind.