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Author:

Freeman, Sally Mott, author.

Title:

The Jersey brothers : a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home / Sally Mott Freeman.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xiv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Cross, Barton,--1918-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines.
Prisoners of war--Philippines--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisons and prisoners, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Philippines.
Cross family.
Cross, Helen,--1883-1966.
Mott, William C.,--1911-1997.
United States.--Navy--Officers--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Washington (D.C.)

Notes:

Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-574).

Contents:

April 1942, Luzon, the Philippines -- Benny -- Helen -- Bill -- Cabanatuan, Spring 1942 -- White House Map Room, April 1942 -- "This force is bound for Tokyo" -- Barton, 1930-1941 -- The perils of escape-and a little baseball -- A brother's burden: the search -- Midway -- Under siege: JN-25 -- To Davao: en avant! -- And then there was one: USS Enterprise vs. Japan -- The other war: Army-Navy football -- Happy days at the penal colony -- Winter's grief -- Escape: crime and punishment -- Farewell to the White House -- A tale of atrocities -- August 1943: Allied War Summit, Quebec, Canada -- Revenge on the innocent and a covert plan -- Secrets inside the oxygen tent -- Hero of Bataan vs. the War Department -- Bad tidings -- Politics in Brisbane -- "Proceed to Kwajalein" -- The best-laid plans -- Initiation at Saipan -- Decampment -- September 1944, Lilac Hedges -- Hopes dashed -- Setbacks -- Through a prism: MacArthur's return -- What Benny knew -- The Oryoko Maru -- End game in the Pacific -- A sailor's nightmare -- In the end, a question of casualties -- and sea power -- No peace at Lilac Hedges -- Final hours.

ISBN:

1501104160
9781501104169
1501104144
9781501104145

OCLC:

(OCoLC)980600010

LCCN:

2016021592

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