Wake Island - The Heroic Gallant Fight

Wake Island: The Heroic Gallant Fight is the gripping story, told in the tradition of Cornelius Ryan, of the men who worked the miracle in those dark days of December, 1941. In the end, Wake Island was lost, but not before stalling the lightning attack of the Japanese and winning valuable time for the faltering Allies. It was, in a sense, the Allies first victory, a brief but glorious glimpse of light, an indication of the bravery and determination that the Allies would demonstrate time and time again in the years ahead.

But most of all, the action at Wake enabled Americans and people around the world to stand a little taller in those grim days of December, to sell with pride at the cockiness and determination which those few displayed in the face of disaster.