Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW (Paperback)
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Etta Jones was not a soldier or a spy. She was a teacher on the remote Aleutian island of Attu. She and her sister moved to Alaska in 1922 from the East coast of the USA. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old easterner met a man and fell in love. She married and for nearly twenty years taught in remote Alaskan villages including their last posting on Attu Island at the far end of the Aleutian island chain. Etta's life changed forever on that Sunday when the Japanese invaded Attu and Etta became a prisoner of war. She was taken from American soil to Japan and given up for dead. This is the story of brave American, a woman of courage and resolve with inextinguishable spirit.
About the Author
A Michigan native, with a B.A. and M.A., Mary Breu taught elementary school for 34 years. She and her husband live in South Carolina with their two children. Etta Jones is Breu's great aunt.
Praise for Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW…
Etta Jones was a nurse and teacher in the Alaska Bush. She was living on Attu when Japanese took the island in World War II and, with the rest of the civilian population, incarcerated in Japan for the rest of the war. Her letters and photographs have been used by her grand-niece, Mary Breu for this book.
---Mike Dunham, Anchorage Daily News
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