books about: internment

books about: internment

books:

Internment

In Defense of Internment: The World War II Round-Up and What It Means For America's War on Terror

Michelle Malkin

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004

In this day and age
I'm afraid that I was not able to get all the way through this book. I was too repulsed by the extreme racist views of the author. It makes you wonder who's side she was on in World War II.

Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

Dorothea Lange

W. W. Norton, 2008

Hauntng, riviting
When I first opened Impounded, I was a bit irritated at the length of the two written pieces that preceeded the actual photographs or Dorthea Lange. After reading the pieces by Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okihiro I was much more aware of the depth of Lange's growing ...

The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp

Barry Denenberg

Scholastic Inc., 1999

AGSamantha from Cutchogue by Mary
"The Christmas that never was!" {Says my sister}. All because of Pearl Harbor, this happened. The story starts in April in 1942 and retraces back to December right about the time of the Pearl Harbor disaster. It gives you a full recount of the disaster. Journal ...

Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II ...

James D. Houston

Bantam Books, 1974

still holds up
i read this book when i was about 11 and purchased it for my 12 yr old son last month. he loved it as much as i did. loves to read, loves world war ii history and had no idea that the u s had holding camps for u s citizens of japanese descent. started a diolog with ...

Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald

NewSage Press, 2005

Strongly recommended to all Americans
Even if one is aware of the internment of the American Japanese, I doubt that most people can form any real idea of what it was like without reading a personal chronicle like this. It is difficult to express how painful it is to read, and I already knew the basic ...

Dandelion Through the Crack

Kiyo Sato

Willow Valley Press, 2007

An Uplifting Story of Family Survival
Readers might expect a book about being banished to an internment camp to be depressing, but Dandelion is not the story you would expect. First and foremost, it's a heartwarming story about an American immigrant family's daily life on the family farm in Sacramento. ...

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience

Heyday Books, 2000

An important account of the Japanese American internment
Only What We Could Carry provides an important account of the Japanese American internment experience after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. Personal documents, art and propaganda are presented in a title which captures the camp experience in a series of personal ...

I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment

Jerry Stanley

Scholastic, 1998

THEY DESERVE BETTER
I read this boook because I had a history project all about Japanese Internment. Before I read this book I thought Japanese Interment was only about the Japanese in some camps. I didn't realize the injustice that we set upon these noble and great people. After ...

The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946

Delphine Hirasuna, Kit Hinrichs

Ten Speed Press, 2005

The Art of Gaman by Hirasuna
This work documents the extensive detainment of Japanese citizens during the later period of WWII. These prisoners were kept in whitewashed horse stalls in California, Oregon and the State of Washington. The camps emphasized education including arts/crafts with a ...

Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself series)

Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

Nomad Press, 2006

Fantastic Book for leaning WWII History - while having fun!
What a great book to teach children about WWII while having fun at the same time! I highly recommend this book to parents (and teachers!)who want to involve their children in entertaining, stimulating activities that engage the mind as well as the hands. Extremely well ...

Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment

Kimi Kodani Hill

Heyday Books, 2000

A compelling and fascinating work
Topaz Moon is a testament to the power of art, not simply as a mechanism for creating beauty, but also as a method of documenting history. Faced with the social disruption and indignity of relocation and internment in WWII, Professor Chiura Obata of the University of ...

Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Sixty years after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and FDR's Executive Order 9066 making possible the incarceration of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent (two thirds of them American citizens) one question remains unresolved: "Could it happen again?" To the writers in this book--novelists, memoirists, poets, activists, scholars, ...

Prisoners of War at Camp Trinadad, Colorado 1943 - 1946: Internment, Intimidation, Incompetence and Country ...
Kurt Landsberger

Arbor Books, 2007

JEWISH SOLDIER TRANSLATES FOR GERMAN POWS DURING WW II An American soldier dispatched to a detention center located in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies learns he is to head up a group of translators for German POWs, some of them dedicated Nazis. The soldier was Kurt Landsberger, a Jewish refugee, who three years prior had barely escaped the ...

What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (Historians at Work)

Alice Yang Murray

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000

A Valuable Resource On The American Internment
This Review refers to the paperback edition of "What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (Historians at Work)", composed by Roger Daniels, Peter Irons, Michi Weglyn, Gary Y. Okihiro, and Valerie J. Matsumoto and as compiled by Alice Yang Murray. Murray's ...

Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
Maisie Conrat

UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1992

This classic collection of photography documents the Japanese American concentration camp experience. Photographs by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, and other War Relocation Authority (WRA) photographers, along with Ansel Adams, Toyo Miyatake, Russell Lee of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and many others. Essays by: Edison Uno, Tom C. ...