Building for War: The Epic Saga of the Civilian Contractors and Marines of Wake Island in World War II
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
This intimately researched work tells the story of the thousand-plus civilian contractors who came to Wake Island in 1941 to build an air station for the U.S. Navy. Author Gilbert charts the contractors' hard-won progress as they scramble to build the naval base as well as runways for U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortresses while war clouds gath