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Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II Paperback - 2003

by Eric L. Muller

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One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001

In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused. Based on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller re-creates the emotions and events that followed the arrival of those draft notices, revealing a dark and complex chapter of America's history.

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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.

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One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001
In 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, it demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but "Free to Die for Their Country" is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused.

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  • Title Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II
  • Author Eric L. Muller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition SHRINK WRAPPED
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
  • Publication date 2003-05-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226548234 / 0226548236
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 6.38 x 0.77 in (21.49 x 16.21 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Japanese Americans - Evacuation and, World War, 1939-1945 - Conscientious
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001027405
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

About the author

Eric L. Muller is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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