The Wind Is Not a River (Audiobook)

from Olivermagnus

Canadian journalist John Easley is despondent over the death of his younger brother in WWII. As a reporter, he thinks he can best pay tribute to the soldiers by covering the real news from the war front. He lives with his wife in Seattle and decides to report on the Japanese invasion of the Aleut...

from tututhefirst

It's loosely the story of the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Island chain (Alaska) during early WW II. Evidently the US Govt didn't want the general populace to know about this and kept it very hush hush. The story concerns a couple and their relationship, but it also is a survival story of ho...

from Donna828

A young couple is torn apart by WWII. John Easley is a journalist who puts himself in danger because his younger brother Warren has given his life to the war in England. He decides he must go to the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska to report on the danger of the Japanese occupation there....

from Beamis12

3.5. In 1942, the Japanese invaded and gained control of Attu ands Kiska, two of the American Aleutian Islands. Immediately American censors ordered a black-out, all journalists were made to leave and the native people on the other islands were evacuated, their homes burned by American forces. An...

from DeltaQueen50

I enjoy reading books that are set in World War II, and The Wind Is Not A River by Brian Payton had the added enticement of being about the battle for the Aleutian Islands that I knew nothing about previously. This was deliberately kept from the public at the time as the government did not want t...