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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Brown, Daniel James, 1951- author.     Subjects     United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd.     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.     Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brown, Daniel James, 1951- author.       by title:      Facing the mountain ...         MARC Display

Facing the mountain : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II / Daniel James Brown. by Brown, Daniel James, 1951- author. [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] Subjects United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd.   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.   Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 ISBN:  9780525557401 (hardcover) : 0525557407 (hardcover) : Description:  xx, 540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents:  Prologue -- Shock -- Exile -- Kotonks and buddhaheads -- A thousand stitches -- To the gates of hell -- Home -- Epilogue. Requests:  1 Summary:  Using interviews with the families of the protagonists as well as deep archival research, Brown portrays the kaleidoscopic journey of four Japanese-American families and their sons, who volunteered for 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to shutter the businesses, surrender their homes, and submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best: striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.-- adapted from jacket   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hanapepe Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Brown Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked out 06/13/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54127 Br Checked In   Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 4 Next

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