One of the last, great untold stories of World War II – kept hidden for decades – even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives, often incomplete or not easily located..a gripping true tale of courage, bravery and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers–the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, fighting two wars simultaneously – their ancestral nation and back home in America, with their families, under US Executive Order 9066, facing suspicion and racial hatred, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps.
Nonfiction
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2021
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