Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps - Paperback

by Michi Nishiura Weglyn (Author), James A. Michener (Introduction by)

Presents a documented account of WWII Japanese American internment. This work tells the story of administrative callousness and bungling, of damage to the human soul, confusion, and terror.

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In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers. Manzanar, the first of ten such concentration camps, was bounded by barbed wire and guard towers, confining 10,000 persons, the majority being American citizens. May the injustices and humiliation suffered here as a result of hysteria, racism and economic exploitation never emerge again.