Author: Harrington, Joseph D.,
Title: YANKEE SAMURAI - The Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory.
Description: Pettigrew Enterprises, Detroit, 1979, 3rd edn., US, 383pp, half tone photo ills. in text, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper by Sheila Harrington, based on the testimony of about one thousand US born citizens of Japanese descent (Nisei), an account of their secret contribution to the United States war effort in the Padific theatre during WW2 which is estimated by the author to have saved one million lives and shortened the war by two years, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., small chip and tear lower panel repaired to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 pacific far east japan usa nisei okinawa us born japanese


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