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Bridge to the Sun : The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II by Bruce Henderson (2022, Hardcover)

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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 best-selling 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 U.S. Executive Order 9066, facing suspicion and racial hatred, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei--first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Nisei--many of them volunteering from the internment camps where they were being held behind barbed wire--were selected by the Army for top-secret training, then were rushed to the Pacific theater. Highly valued as expert translators and interrogators, these Japanese American soldiers operated in elite intelligence teams alongside Army infantrymen and Marines on the front lines of the Pacific war, from Iwo Jima to Burma, from the Solomons to Okinawa. Henderson reveals, in riveting detail, the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific, through six Japanese American soldiers. The role of the U.S. Nisei soldiers was so far-reaching, General MacArthur said that because of their efforts, "never in military history did an army know so much about the enemy prior to engagement." After the war, these soldiers became translators and interrogators for war crime trials, and later helped to rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and a pivotal U.S. ally.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525655816
ISBN-13
9780525655817
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057240243

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Book Title
Bridge to the Sun : The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Military / World War II, United States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, World
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Bruce Henderson
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.9 in

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Dewey Edition
23
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"Riveting! Bruce Henderson is a gifted storyteller. In Bridge to the Sun , he juxtaposes ethnic ancestry with patriotic loyalties to show how Japanese American soldiers fought discrimination and prejudice to help win World War II in the Pacific. Having made a PBS documentary about the Military Intelligence Service, I appreciate how meticulously Henderson researched this complicated and intricate story, skillfully weaving together the battles these young men fought on and off the field, and ultimately triumphing despite the poignant, human cost of war. A dramatic saga not to be missed for the parallels it draws today." --gayle k. yamada, director/writer, Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties " Bridge to the Sun tells a big story through six men who brought the skills of military intelligence learned at Camp Savage and Fort Snelling to the Pacific theater -- including that of Grant Hirabayashi, who fought with Merrill's Marauders in Burma, while at home his cousin Gordon fought the race-based curfew and mass removal all the way to the Supreme Court. Meticulously researched and expertly told, Bridge to the Sun is a significant addition to the epic narrative of Japanese American history." --Frank Abe, author of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration "Bruce Henderson has given us another vivid and deeply researched story, this time about courageous Japanese American soldiers who used their linguistic skills to help defeat Imperial Japan in WWII, and build a better world. With Japanese faces but American hearts, the Nisei proved their loyalty again and again on distant battlefields. All Americans owe them a great debt." --James C. McNaughton, author of Nisei Linguists "Bruce Henderson's Bridge to the Sun poignantly reveals the powerful stories of Japanese American soldiers who volunteered to serve with the U.S. Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific Theater during WWII while many of their families were incarcerated in America's concentration camps. A must read for anyone wanting to understand the depth and sacrifices these soldiers made to prove their loyalty to the United States." --Lucy Ostrander, coproducer, Proof of Loyalty and Honor & Sacrifice "The Japanese American story, as was written in the 1988 federal law HR 442, declares we were and are loyal citizens of this country, deserving of an apology and redress for the unjust actions of our government during WW II. Yet what Bruce Henderson reveals in Bridge to the Sun is the story of those who were loyal to our common humanity --that of Nisei soldiers recruited into the secret Military Intelligence Service to serve America in the Pacific theater. Famed for crucial assistance through tough campaigns in Burma, the South Pacific, and Okinawa, these men demonstrated skills not only as interpreters and interrogators, but as compassionate bridges between the American and Japanese societies that raised them, instrumental in saving both American and Japanese lives. This remarkable work chronicles a history that has long been classified and unknown--not even to the descendants of these exceptional men. I wept to read it, each word a monument to unageing heroism, each sentence a hymn to an everlasting dignity that, even in a time of war, countered racial hate with human sympathy. Me ke aloha... " --Garrett Hongo, author of The Perfect Sound
Lccn
2021-053217
Afterword by
Yamada, Gerald
Dewey Decimal
940.53089956073
Lc Classification Number
D769.8.A6h46 2022

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