Go
 

  Get this audio book:

( Amazon.com )        # of Discs: 10




Learn More About
Find More Titles by
This Author: Robert Asahina
This Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
This Publisher: Tantor Audio

Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad by Robert Asahina

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

by Robert Asahina


Title Details

Narrator
Publisher
 
Unabridged Edition
Running Time
12 Hrs.

Description

A sneak attack by an enemy power leaves thousands of Americans dead. A minority group in America is harassed for its ties to a foreign country. A worldwide conflict tests our resolve in combat abroad and our commitment to justice, equality, and liberty at home.

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 they did to affirm their full citizenship. 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."

From breathless battle scenes, masterfully handled in all their detail, to the unbreakable bonds of friendship in the field and to heart-wrenching stories of loss and discrimination on the mainland and in Hawaii, Just Americans tells the story of what Gen. George C. Marshall called the "most decorated unit in American military history for its size and length of service". It is also the story of soldiers in combat who were fighting a greater battle at home, a struggle that continues for minority groups today, over what it means to be an American.


People Who Liked Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad Also Liked These Titles:
  The Best of American Heritage
by Edwin S. Grosvenor

  Strike the Hammer
by Laura Warren Hill