After 64 years, does anyone remember Wake?

For January, 2005, we will be trying an experiment by reading another historical novel. This novel has some local interest because it focuses on the lives of some Morrison-Knudsen employees working on Wake Island in 1941, and the effect of their capture by the Japanese on their families back in Boise.

From the Publisher:
Based on a true story
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.

   About the Author

Teresa R. Funke has a degree in history and has worked as a researcher for PBS and several museums. She has published dozens of articles, written a history column, and had short stories and essays appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is currently at work on the nonfiction book We Can Do It: American Women's Stories from World War II and a second novel. Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, she now lives with her husband and family in Colorado.