War Comes to Alaska tells the story of the Dutch Harbor Attack from both the American and Japanese points of view. Kept secret for morale and security reasons, the Japanese attack and ultimate invasion of the Aleutians was off limits to the American press. Government leaders feared the outbreak of panic if Americans realized how close the Japanese were to the West Coast of the Lower 48 states.Rourke has gone beyond that important, but little kwn, story of when war came to North America. He has also shown us the fight a small body of troops waged against the weather in that far to the rth place where they were building a fortress in that spongy tundra to protect the American mainland.
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