Title Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II / Bruce Henderson.

Publication Info.	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	xxii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note	"A Borzoi book."
	Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-420) and index.
Contents	Prologue: Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 -- The type of soldier we want -- "Harm them ... harm me" -- "Where is Pearl Harbor?" -- Executive Order 9066 -- Rope in the open sea -- Camp Savage -- Solomons Islands -- North to Alaska -- The cousins -- A hazardous mission -- Merrill's Marauders -- Myitkyina -- The Admiralties -- Sulphur Island -- The last invasion -- China -- Return to Japan -- Okinawa, Spring 1995 -- Dramatis personae -- Afterword / by Gerald Yamada.
Summary	"The true story of the Japanese American soldiers who helped fight the war in the Pacific in World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
	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--a gripping true tale of courage 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, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American.
	Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century.
	Japanese American soldiers -- Biography.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
	HISTORY / World.
	Japanese American soldiers. (OCoLC)fst00981433
	Japanese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00981441
	Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
	Pacific Area. (OCoLC)fst01243504
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Online version: Henderson, Bruce. Bridge to the sun First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] 9780525655824 (DLC) 2021053218
ISBN	9780525655817 (hardcover)
	0525655816 (hardcover)

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