A History of Alaska, Volume III Robert E. Norton Summers and Jacques P

Summers and Jacques P

the speed of thought

Each volume includes a substantive introduction from the editors

The Robertsons' strong determination shines through the pages of this extraordinary book which describes movingly their daily hopes and fears

lured like moths to its flames

A History of Alaska, Volume III Robert E. Norton Summers and Jacques PThe Second World War was to Alaska what the First World War had been to the nation. The essential reality of Alaska's experience during World War II was the end of its isolation from the continental United States. As a consequence of the war, Alaska's territorial era entered its twilight years, eclipsed by the dawn of statehood nineteen years later and driven largely by military imperatives. A further legacy was Alaska's inevitably significant role in