Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.530899/HENDERSON,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780525655817, 0525655816 :, 0525655816, 9780525655817
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A Borzoi book."
Prologue: Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 -- The type of soldier we want -- "Harm them ... harm me" -- "Where is Pearl Harbor?" -- Executive Order 9066 -- Rope in the open sea -- Camp Savage -- Solomons Islands -- North to Alaska -- The cousins -- A hazardous mission -- Merrill's Marauders -- Myitkyina -- The Admiralties -- Sulphur Island -- The last invasion -- China -- Return to Japan -- Okinawa, Spring 1995 -- Dramatis personae -- Afterword / by Gerald Yamada
"The true story of the Japanese American soldiers who helped fight the war in the Pacific in World War II."--
Includes bibliographical references and index