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Fighting For Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II

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Michael Cooper's book "Fighting for Honor" provides insight into the treatment of Japanese Americans before, during and after World War II. The status and treatment of Asians in the U.S. and especially on the West coast is discussed in the early portion of the book. As for other portions of the book, this should be educational for children not familiar with the history of that time. Mr. Cooper does an excellent job in describing the resettlement of Japanese Americans at the beginning of the war along with a map showing the War Relocation Authority Camps. Throughout the book, Mr. Cooper attemps to describe the thinking and mood of the Japanese Americans. There are good examples of the exploits of Japanese American soldiers fighting for the U.S. during the war and a sad chapter describing the welcome the troops received after returning from the war. Throughout the book there are very good photographs illustrating the subject being discussed. This is an excellent history book for children describing the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

I got my son this book as part of required reading for school. He found it informative and moderately interesting, reading it in about 2 days easily. Most of it is about the wartime service of Japanese Americans, and it also addresses the mistreatment they received in the states. I hope he can apply lessons learned about discrimination later in life.

This is an excellent book. It gives a good perspective of some of what the Japanese Americans experienced during World War II while living in America. The perspective is from many sides. Well written.