TY  - BOOK
AU  - Golodoff,Nick
TI  - Attu boy: a young Alaskan's WWII memoir 
SN  - 9781602232501
AV  - D769 .A888 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Fairbanks, AK
PB  - University of Alaska Press
KW  - Golodoff, Nick.
KW  - Attu, Battle of, Alaska, 1943
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - United States
KW  - Japan
KW  - Shiritsu Otaru Bungakkan
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Aleutian Islands
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; List of Figures; Preface by Brenda Maly; Introduction; A Young Boy's Experience during World War II; Attu before the War; Prewar Fears and Clues about Japanese Invasion; The Japanese Invasion, June 7, 1942; Life as a Japanese POW; Return and Resettlement; Nick's Connection to Japan; Reflections on Life in Atka; Growing Up and Going to School; Left Behind by the Military; Working Life; Hunting, Fishing, and Wildlife; Atka Is Far Away from Anywhere Else; Learning from the Elders; Relatives from Attu; Commentary and First-Person Accounts; Attu before the War; Prewar Fears and Clues about Japanese InvasionThe Japanese Invasion, June 7, 1942; Life as a Japanese POW; Return and Resettlement; Nick's Connection to Japan; Epilogue; Appendix: Attu Prehistory and History; Bibliography; 2; b
N2  - In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corralling all survivors into a freighter bound for Japan. One of those survivors, Nick Golodoff, became a prisoner of war at just six years old. He was among the dozens of Unangan Attu residents swept away to Hokkaido, and one of only twenty-five to survive. Attu Boy tells Golodoff's story of these harrowing years as he found both friendship and cruelty at the hands of the Japanese. It offers a rare look at the lives of civilian prisoners and their captors in WWII-era Japan. It also tells of Golodoff's bittersweet return to a homeland torn apart by occupation and forced internments. Interwoven with other voices from Attu, this richly illustrated memoir is a testament to the struggles, triumphs, and heartbreak of lives disrupted by war
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