James. A. Ardaiz

Tears of Honor (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A sweeping novel of history, war, and courage in the face of injustice, Tears of Honor tells the story of the heroic Japanese American soldiers who fought against Nazi tyranny in Europe, while their families were imprisoned in America.

Sammy and Freddy are two all-American boys in the summer of 1941, dreaming of becoming professional baseball players and maybe asking a girl to the senior prom. But when war comes, Sammy Miyaki, Freddy Shiraga, and their families are seen as enemy aliens, not Americans. Taken from their homes in rural central California and placed in internment camps, the boys decide that the only way to prove their loyalty to America is to join the Army.

Assigned to an all Japanese American combat unit fighting against the Germans, Sammy and Freddy are placed under the command of the combat-hardened Lieutenant Young Oak Kim (a real-life person and one of the most highly decorated American soldiers in history), who leads them through some of the fiercest fighting of the war. Sammy, Freddy and their comrades confront the prejudice of white soldiers and the horrors of combat, as they come to realize they are fighting not just for the United States, but for the honor of all Japanese Americans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Linden Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610353793
• Artikelnr.: 60724997

Autorenporträt

As a student of history and an appellate court judge, I was called upon to give a speech about the failures of the American judicial system. I long regarded Korematsu v United States, addressing the detention of Japanese Americans during WWII, as one of the worst court-endorsed violations of civil rights in American judicial history. However, reading the decision didn't provide the context of reality in terms of the people affected. I decided to study the circumstances giving rise to the decision and the reasons for the government's actions. No book I read on the subject provided a reader with the integration of all of the events and participants into one story, allowing the reader to see the role, reasoning, and reaction of each of the major participants and why they did what they did. It left me with a question: Why would young Japanese Americans be willing to lay down their lives for a country that rejected their families because of race? Rather than write a nonfiction account, I decided that a novel carefully adhering to historical accounts would provide a reader with the human impact, emotion and consequences of a story that reveals the greatness of the American dream and the commitment of people who call themselves Americans. Tears of Honor is that novel.