Facing the Mountain : : a True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
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Prologue -- Shock -- Exile -- Kotonks and buddhaheads -- A thousand stitches -- To the gates of hell -- Home -- Epilogue.
Using interviews with the families of the protagonists as well as deep archival research, Brown portrays the kaleidoscopic journey of four Japanese-American families and their sons, who volunteered for 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to shutter the businesses, surrender their homes, and submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best: striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.-- adapted from jacket
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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525557401
0525557407
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Regimental Combat Team, 442nd.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe.
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.