Under Four Flags: The U.S.S. Wake and the First American POWs of World War II

by Paul M. Edwards

Relates the entire story of the U.S.S. Wake, the only U.S. ship to be captured by the Japanese during World War II, a gunboat that subsequently flew under the Japanese flag, then, after the war, under the flag of Nationalist China and finally Communist China.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 2008

About the author

PAUL M. EDWARDS is Coordinator of Assessment and Evaluation for Baker University at Overland Park, Kansas. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of the Korean War, an archival foundation located in Independence, Missouri. The author of several books on the Korean War, he teaches classes on the Korean War at Baker and Park Universities.