Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

TitleInfamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsReeves, Richard
Number of Pages342
PublisherHenry Holt and Company
CityNew York
Abstract

This book provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II. Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in primitive camps. In this volume, the story of this appalling chapter in American history is told more powerfully than ever before. The author has interviewed survivors, read numerous private letters and memoirs, and combed through archives to deliver a sweeping narrative of this atrocity. This volume tells the poignant stories of those who spent years in "war relocation camps," many of whom suffered this terrible injustice with remarkable grace. Racism, greed, xenophobia, and a thirst for revenge: a dark strand in the American character underlies this story of one of the most shameful episodes in our history. 

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