"[Duus'] book deserves a wide audience."
"The author's descriptions of the 100th Battalion and 442nd
Regimental Combat Team's combat operations are gripping and
personal, enabling the reader to envision and understand the
hardships and horrors experienced by the Japanese-American
infantrymen."
"The Japanese-American soldiers not only won a victory over the
enemy abroad but over prejudice and injustice at home. President
Harry S. Truman himself said as much. Masayo Duus has written a
book that is truly remarkable, not because it so effectively
affirms this lesson once more, but because she manages to tell so
much more. After extensive research and interviews, she tells her
tale through the voices of many: generals, privates, mothers, sons,
Germans, French, issei, nisei, draftees, volunteers, kotonks, and
buddhaheads."
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