Free to Die for Their Country
Subtitle: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Contributors: Daniel K. Inouye (Foreword)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780226548234
Subjects: American history: Second World War; History; History - Military / War; History: World; USA; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Military - World War II; History / Military / World War II; Americas (North Central South West Indies)
First sentence: On the last day of spring in 1944, as American infantrymen began their assault on the Nazi-held port city of Cherbourg in northern France, the U.S. Army staged an induction ceremony for sixty-six new draftees in Idaho.