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1	Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment more books like this by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston add to wishlist Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet more books like this by Jamie Ford add to wishlist Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, the times and places are brought [stirringly] to life (Jim Tomlinson, author of "Things Kept, Things Left Behind"). see all copies from $7.18! new only from $7.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tallgrass more books like this by Sandra Dallas add to wishlist During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small town. Part thriller, part historical novel, Dallas has written a riveting exploration of the darkest--as well as the best--parts of the human heart. see all copies from $2.88! new only from $6.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp more books like this by Barry Denenberg add to wishlist Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment more books like this by Dorothea Lange, Linda Gordon (Editor), Professor Gary Y Okihiro (Editor) add to wishlist Censored by the US Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This work of visual and social history confirms Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. "Impounded" evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $11.89! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II more books like this by Roger Daniels, Professor Eric Foner (Consultant editor) add to wishlist As issues of national security have recently led many to question the scope and extent of our civil liberties, there is a rekindled interest in the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. This brief guide uncovers the history of that tragic part of our past. "Prisoners Without Trial" is part of the celebrated Hill and Wang ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Obasan more books like this by Joy Kogawa add to wishlist This novel was the first to tell the story of the Canadian internment camps for Japanese-Canadian citizens during World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps more books like this by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald add to wishlist In 1941, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was a teenage girl who, like other Americans, reacted with horror to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yet soon she and her family were among 110,000 innocent people imprisoned by the U.S. government because of their Japanese ancestry. In this eloquent memoir, she describes both the day-to-day and the dramatic turning ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $8.64! \| signed copies \| SVS
9	In Defense of Internment: The World War II Round-Up and What It Means for America's War on Terror more books like this by Michelle Malkin add to wishlist The author of Invasion argues that the internment of ethnic Japanese during World War II was the result of real national security concerns, just as the Bush administration's moves to interrogate, track, and deport suspected terrorists is moderate and restrained. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Baseball Saved Us more books like this by Ken Mochizuki add to wishlist The story of a Japanese-American boy named Shorty who is sent, with his family, to an internment camp during World War II. Life in the camp is difficult and bleak. Shorty's father determines that the internees need some diversion to help the time pass so he establishes a baseball league. Shorty himself has never been a good player, but he is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Weedflower more books like this by Cynthia Kadohata add to wishlist With remarkable insight and clarity, the Newbery Medal-winning author of "Kira-Kira" explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a young Japanese-American girl living in California just as the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Young Adult. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Moved-Outers more books like this by Florence Crannell Means add to wishlist After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.34! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream more books like this by Kiyo Sato add to wishlist "Vividly honest, deeply moving."--Bill Hosokawa, Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American "It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being compared to Farewell to Manzanar. I cannot praise its pointillist realism, its Zen-like austerity, highly enough. Exquisite."--Kevin Starr, California: A History "Taken simply as a family ... see all copies from $6.87! new only from $14.92! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience more books like this by Lawson Fusao Inada (Editor), Patricia Wakida (Preface by), William M Hohri (Afterword by) add to wishlist During WW2, the US government suspended due process, rounded up more than 100,000 Japanese and American citizens of Japanese descent, and banished them to prison camps in desert wastelands. They were not charged with any crime, except, of course, being Japanese. This collection of haunting reminiscences, letters, stories, poems, and graphic art ... see all copies from $2.32! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Years of infamy : the untold story of America's concentration camps more books like this by Michi Weglyn add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Legends from Camp more books like this by Lawson Fusao Inada add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans more books like this by Greg Robinson add to wishlist This study of President Roosevelt's 1942 order to intern Japanese-Americans in camps reveals hitherto undisclosed aspects of his administration and character. Robinson explores the evidence that Roosevelt harbored prejudicial views and may have bought into anti-Japanese hysteria of the time. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $23.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Thin Wood Walls more books like this by David Patneaude add to wishlist Eleven-year-old Joe Hanada's world falls apart after Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor. When the government orders people of Japanese heritage living on the West Coast to move to internment camps, Joe turns to the journal his father gave him to record his thoughts and feelings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases more books like this by Peter H Irons add to wishlist This study relates one of the most disturbing events of American history - the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. It documents the political debate that preceded the internment order and uncovers a governmental campaign to suppress and destroy crucial evidence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	The great betrayal; the evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II more books like this by Audrie Girdner, Anne Loftis add to wishlist see all copies from $3.50! first editions
21 view cover	Citizen 13660 more books like this by Mine Okubo add to wishlist see all copies from $7.18! new only from $10.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment more books like this by Brian Masaru Hayashi add to wishlist During World War II, some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called 'assembly centers' surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries. In this insightful and ... see all copies from $7.56! new only from $24.79! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Moon Bridge more books like this by Marcia Savin add to wishlist The friendship between San Francisco girls Mitzi Fujimoto and Ruthie Fox is changed when World War II begins and Mitzi and her family are forced to go into an internment camp. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946 more books like this by Delphine Hirasuna, Terry Heffernan (Photographer), Kit Hinrichs (Designer) add to wishlist In 1942, Executive Order 9066 mandated the incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans, including men, women, children, the elderly, and the infirm, for the duration of the war. Allowed only what they could carry, they were given just a few days to settle their affairs and report to assembly centers. Businesses were lost, personal property was ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $21.38! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple more books like this by Louis Fiset, Roger Daniels (Foreword by) add to wishlist Correspondence between a Japanese couple separated in different internment camps in the US during WWII reveals the human side of this tragic and shameful episode in US history. Early chapters detail their lives in Japan, their arrival in Seattle in 1919, and their lives in the US up until 1941. Inc see all copies from $7.00! new only from $13.95! \| signed copies

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