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Title:
Facing the mountain [text (large print)] : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II / Daniel James Brown.
ISBN:
9780593414392
Personal Author:
Brown, Daniel James, 1951-
Edition:
First large print edition.
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : Random House Large Print, [2021]
Physical Description:
xxi, 804 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- Shock -- Exile -- Kotonks and buddhaheads -- A thousand stitches -- To the gates of hell -- Home -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Draws on extensive interviews with the families of four soldiers to chronicle the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe while their parents were forced to surrender their homes and submit to life in concentration camps on American soil.
Corporate Subject:
United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd.
Subject Term:
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
Genre:
Large print books
OCLC Number:
on1252718286
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