Life Behind Barbed Wire The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei

Name: Life Behind Barbed Wire The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei
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ISBN: 9780824820336

ISBN-10: 0824820339

ISBN-13: 9780824820336

Edition: 2008

Authors: Keiho Soga, Kihei Hirai, Tetsuden Kashima

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Yasutaro Soga's Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai'i Japanese during World War II. On the evening of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Soga, the editor of a Japanese-language newspaper, was arrested along with several hundred other prominent Issei (Japanese immigrants) in Hawai'i. After being held for six months on Sand Island, Soga was transferred to an Army camp in Lordsburg, New Mexico, and later to a Justice Department camp in Santa Fe. He would spend just under four years in custody before returning to Hawai'i in the months following the end of the war. Most of what has been written about the detention of Japanese…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 255
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English