{"product_id":"nisei-soldiers-break-their-silence-9780295997063","title":"Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation.   Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their fami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNisei Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e touches deeply into America's reckoning with race and bigotry and deserves a wide reading. The author offers a persuasive and compelling account of the treatment of Japanese Americans in peace and wartime.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- William G. Robbins * Oregon Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tamura’s Nisei Soldiers is an interesting, solidly researched, and well-written piece of history, one that fills a gap in the literature on the American war experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Thomas Saylor * Oral History Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . an excellent history of the Hood River Nisei who served during WW II. Her book is backed by all of the expected (and nicely utilized) sources . . . what helps to distinguish the book as unique are the multitude of rare interviews . . . Highly recommended.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An important book about a shameful era in the history of the Columbia gorge. . . . Tamura uses interviews and newly uncovered documents to tell a shocking story.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeff Baker * The Oregonian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tamura has done well to write this book, which strikes a blow at historical amnesia and resonates in Puget Sound country.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mike Dillon * City Living *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This important chronicle of the community's wartime contributions interweaves fact and anecdote . . . Tamura provides an engaging outlet for a hidden voice . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Linda Tamura’s revelatory community history, \u003ci\u003eNisei Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e, exposes the racism experienced by Japanese American soldiers from Hood River, Oregon during World War II and the postwar years. . . .Her poignant case study fills a necessary gap in the social history of Japanese American postwar resettlement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Melanie English * Pacific Northwest Quarterly, *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A superb read, an excellent source of Northwest social history, and a welcome addition to the literature on Japanese internment.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Eric Cunningham * Columbia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNisei Soldiers Break Their Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is a much-needed account of a crucial period in Japanese American history. . . . Linda Tamura's clearly written, discerning, and engaging book deserves careful study by both specialists and general readers interested in Japanese Americans' contributions during and after the Second World War.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Brian Casserly * Michigan War Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Oral History Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1 | Early Years\u003cbr\u003e 1. “Growing Up in Two Worlds” | Balancing Japanese America\u003cbr\u003e 2. “Nice People So Long as They Are in a Minority” | The Japanese American Community in Hood River \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2 | World War II\u003cbr\u003e 3. “Why Didn’t You Tell Us the War Was Coming?” | Community Fallout from Pearl Harbor\u003cbr\u003e 4. “Fighting for Good Uncle Sam” | Nisei Enter the Military\u003cbr\u003e 5. “The Two-Sided Sword” | Wartime Changes for Japanese American Families\u003cbr\u003e 6. “Getting Shot from Ahead of Us and Behind Us” | War in the South Pacific\u003cbr\u003e 7. “From Somewhere in Europe” | War Europe \u003cbr\u003e 8. “I’ve Got a Lot of Fighting to Do Right Here” | Charged with Willful Disobedience\u003cbr\u003e 9. “Discard My Uniform for Good” | The End of the War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3 | After the War\u003cbr\u003e 10. “No Japes Wanted in Hood River” | The Hood River Situation\u003cbr\u003e 11. “Ninety Percent Are Against the Japs!” | Veterans and Their Families Return \u003cbr\u003e 12. “You Could Feel It” | Resettling in the Community and Elsewhere \u003cbr\u003e 13. “Time is a Good Healer” | Rebuilding\u003cbr\u003e 14. “Guilty of Courage” | Discipline Barrack Boys’ Appeals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 4 | Today\u003cbr\u003e 15. “Opening the Closets of History” | The Community Today\u003cbr\u003e 16. No “Ordinary Soldiers” | The Patriot Test\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400935776599,"sku":"9780295997063","price":107.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nisei-soldiers-break-their-silence-9780295997063","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}