Bruce Henderson

Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II -- Bruce Henderson, Hardcover

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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.

After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei--first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Nisei--many of them volunteering from the internment camps where they were being held behind barbed wire--were selected by the Army for top-secret training, then were rushed to the Pacific theater. Highly valued as expert translators and interrogators, these Japanese American soldiers operated in elite intelligence teams alongside Army infantrymen and Marines on the front lines of the Pacific war, from Iwo Jima to Burma, from the Solomons to Okinawa.

Henderson reveals, in riveting detail, the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific, through six Japanese American soldiers. After the war, these soldiers became translators and interrogators for war crime trials, and later helped to rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and a pivotal U.S. ally.

Author: Bruce Henderson
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780525655817

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2022 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 05/30/2022
Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 74
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022

Product Tags:

1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific, 20th Century, Bruce Henderson, Hardcover, History, History - Military / War, Knopf Publishing Group, Modern, United States, Wars & Conflicts, World War, World War II

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