Double victory
Subtitle: a multicultural history of America in World War II
By: Ronald Takaki.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States; Racism -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: "Until now, the story of America's role in World War II has been presented primarily through the lives of powerful policymakers and generals, or through the heroism of American soldiers of predominantly European ancestry. Historian Ronald Takaki's multicultural history offers a different perspective.

In Double Victory, history is told through the lives of ordinary, ethnically diverse Americans - a Tuskegee pilot wanting to fly and fight for freedom, a Navajo code talker using his native language to transmit battle messages, a Mexican-American woman riveting B-29 bombers in an airplane factory, a Japanese American feeling betrayed by his own government, and a Jewish-American soldier at Buchenwald pressing human ashes into his palm so that he would never forget what he had seen.".

"What emerges from Takaki's study is the affirming story of how minorities fought for a "double victory" against fascism abroad and prejudice at home."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-269) and index.