Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific

By Lyn Crost

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891415211
• ISBN13: 9780891415213
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent coverage of Japanese American military effort

I found the book to be an excellent coverage of the Japanese American military effort during the Second World War. The book does more then relates the stories of the Japanese-American combat units but also go into other fields that these folks went into which proves to highly useful and valuable in the war effort. Serving as translators, working in military intelligence service and working on propagranda were all important duties served by the Japanese-American soldiers who often had to fight this war on two fronts....the enemies and their own side. I found the book to be well written, well researched and quite informative.

War at home

This book was written with hopes that those who have yet to come might grasp all aspects of the conflict known as WWII beyond those we might have seen courtesy of Frank Capra and news reels. If anyone has ever assumed the allies were without internal strife, that I am sad to say is a great wrong, for in fact the allies were split, not just in country, but by color, and race. This book tells the tail of the men of the 442nd Go for Broke, as well as the OSS Pacific theater translators who risked their lives and shed their blood for a country who, at the time housed their families in interment camps and took away their civil liberties. We were fighting the good fight, this is true and please do not think I hate my country, I would still fight for her and all her residence, but in that era it was not always so and this is obvious here. The turmoil one faces from both fronts in a war is relevent here as well as the feeling that most veterans felt when they knew friends for so long who the next morning would be killed. This story is also one of redemption, of how the Nisei not only proved themselves, but became one of the greatest units in the ETO around Italy. They shared the grief of their comrads in arms, the lack of supplies which hit all units of the campaign against Mt. Cassino and the light hearted moments on the Champaign campaign, an assignment that was not as horrible as those days in the Italian winter. To anyone who thinks America was a dog nation then, that is false. We learned from our faults, and today we honor these brave men, and always should.