Facing Fearful Odds The Siege of Wake Island

**1998 General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation**Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound psychological effect on the course of that struggle. This was the battle that first raised American spirits in the dark weeks following Pearl Harbor. Based on interviews with over seventy American and Japanese participants, Facing Fearful Odds is military history from the bottom up, an unforgettable reading experience told from the perspective of enlisted men and junior officers who served on the front lines.Gregory J. W. Urwin is a professor of history at Temple University. His many books include Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer, available in a Bison Books edition.Urwin, Gregory J. W. is the author of 'Facing Fearful Odds The Siege of Wake Island' with ISBN 9780803295629 and ISBN 0803295626.