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Toshio Whelchel From Pearl Harbor to Saigon Japanese American Soldiers and the Vietnam War
Verso 1999 1859848591 / 9781859848593 Hardcover New in New dust jacket
New hardcover with no remainder mark. Collectible condition. Professional service from a Main Street bookstore. ; Haymarket; 0.98 x 8.34 x 6.49 Inches; 203 pages; Among Vietnam veterans, Japanese Americans have remained largely silent about their wartime experiences. Until now. In this ground-breaking book, many of them talk for the first time about their struggle for identity in the US and how this affected their participation in the Vietnam War in particular. Toshio Whelchel interviewed over one hundred veterans in the course of his work, and here he presents the most revealing and moving of their stories. Several of them begin in the relocation camps to which many Japanese American families were posted during and after the Second World War - environments which led many young men to accept the military draft without question. Some reveal the various forms of discrimination practised across the different military institutions. All illustrate the profound influence of the war on their lives: how they dealt with routine racism, their growing politicisation and the struggle to reintegrate themselves into American society after the war.
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38.00 USD
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