Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad - Brossura

Asahina, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 159240300X ISBN 13: 9781592403004

Casa editrice: Gotham Books, 2007

Riassunto

Selected by the Washington Post Book World as Best Nonfiction of 2006. The moving tale of the most decorated (for its size and length of service) and least known U.S. Army unit of World War II?the Japanese American 442d Regimental Combat Team.

Within months after Pearl Harbor, 110,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly "evacuated" from the West Coast, losing their jobs, their property, and their homes. In less than a year, they were "relocated" and incarcerated in desolate camps throughout the West, Southwest and South. Yet, incredibly, thousands of young men from the camps joined the Army, to defend the country that had denied them their rights.

This is the dramatic story of the segregated Japanese American 100th Battalion/442d Regimental Combat Team?and what its soldiers did to affirm their full citizenship. During the fall of 1944, the combat team made headlines when it rescued the "lost battalion" of the 36th "Texas" Division. And while the soldiers of the 100th/442d were sacrificing their lives in Europe, the Roosevelt administration was debating whether to close the camps, and whether military necessity had truly justified the "relocation." Just Americans tells the story of soldiers in combat who were fighting a greater battle at home. As Gen. Jacob L. Devers put it, in World War II the soldiers of the 100th/442d had "more than earned the right to be called just Americans, not Japanese Americans."

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Recensione

Asahina (writes) with a welcome degree of detachment and honesty. There is no sermonizing or breast-beating here, just clear facts. Just Americans is a thought- provoking book that says a great deal about the ambiguities of America’s democratic legacy and the complex issues of American national identity. (The Washington Post)

Timely, thoughtful, and meticulously researched. . . . Asahina re-creates the battles in impressively painstaking detail. (The New York Times Book Review)

L'autore

Robert Asahina is a third generation Japanese American, whose father and uncle served in the 442d, a segregated unit of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in WWII. He has been an editor at George, HarperÂ’s, The New York Times Book Review, GEO, and The Public Interest. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Art International, Yale Theater, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and other periodicals. He is a former Senior Vice President, Deputy Publisher, and Editor in Chief of Broadway Books.

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• Editore: Gotham Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 159240300X
• ISBN 13: 9781592403004
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 339