Mary Breu
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Etta Jones was not a soldier. She was not a spy. She was a teacher on the remote Aleutian island of Attu. In 1922, she had agreed to move to Alaska from the East Coast with her sister, promising to stay one year. But during that year, this forty-something nurse met a man and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years taught in remote Alaskan villages. Their lives changed forever when the Japanese invaded Attu and Etta became a prisoner...