Remember Wake: A Novel

by Teresa Funke

Overview

Based on a true story from The Pacific. . . December, 1941—While the world focuses on the carnage at Pearl Harbor, tiny Wake Island 2,300 miles west is also under attack. On it are 1,200 civilians and a small detachment of Marines. This frightened, under-equipped band of Americans will hold the mighty Japanese navy at bay for sixteen days before succumbing to a sweeping invasion. "Remember Wake" becomes a battle cry for a nation marching to war. Now prisoners of the Emperor, Colin Finnely and the others are crowded aboard a notorious Japanese hell ship bound for Asia, where they will suffer four long years in disease-infested prison camps, while forced to work as slave laborers. They will die by the hundreds. With only one reason to live—his love for his fiancée, Maggie Braun—Colin struggles to survive torture and inhuman conditions. And on the home front, Maggie, unsure if Colin is even alive, faces agonizing decisions that may alter both their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935571018
Publisher:	Victory House Press
Publication date:	01/10/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Teresa R. Funke is the author of Remember Wake, an award-winning novel based on a true story from WWII. She is also the author of Dancing in Combat Boots: Stories of American Women in WWII and Doing My Part, the first book in the Home-Front Heroes series for middle grade readers. The second book in the Home-Front Heroes collection, The No-No Boys, is set in a Japanese internment camp. the third, V for Victory, was released in the fall of 2009.

Teresa has worked as a researcher for PBS and several museums and written dozens of articles. Her essays and short stories have appeared in numerous commercial and literary magazines and anthologies including Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, 2003 Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, Tampa Review, In Posse Review's Ethnic Anthology on Web del Sol, Under the Sun, U.S. Catholic, Adoption Today and several others. Two of her essays have been listed as Notable Essays of 2002 and 2004 by the prestigious Best American Essays series.
A popular speaker, presenter and writer's coach, Teresa is also the host of the writers' videos The Write Series. She is also the presenter of her popular six-part workshop That Book Inside You: How to Write It, Publish It, Sell It.