******A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
**One of NPR's Books We Love of 2021
Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner of the Christopher Award
"Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their
sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon
heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's
ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual
soldiers...a page-turner." - Wall Street Journal
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the
Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance,
focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the
contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation.
In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese
Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this
unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of
Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred
Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat
Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were
asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these
soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in
concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of
Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up
against their government in defense of their own rights. 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.
