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Gr 7 Up—Sandler expertly crafts a narrative that manages to explain the horror and incomprehensibility of locking up American citizens in prison camps simply because of their ethnic ancestry. Japanese American relocation has long been expurgated from school history texts about World War II, and here this delicate topic is handled with sensitivity and insight, providing an in-depth look at the full story, from anti-Japanese sentiments during the first wa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

German concentration camp Dachau was liberated by American soldiers -- Japanese American soldiers. "And at the very moment they were setting the Dachau prisoners free, tens of thousands of their relatives and friends back home in the United States were being held against their will in what amounted to American concentration camps." Sandler provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the Japanese American experience during WWII, tracing anti-Japanese prejudice back to the earliest stages o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Martin W. Sandler takes a comprehensive look at the many aspects of the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. He includes some nuances not often discussed, such as politicians who were against i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More