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Reflecting on WWII, Manzanar, and the WRA (Paperback)
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Reflecting on WWII, Manzanar, and the WRA (Paperback)
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List price R628
Loot Price R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
You Save R99 (16%)
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Through autobiographical and historical information, Reflecting on
WWII, Manzanar, and the WRA provides a broad overview of life in
California both before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor,
leading to the creation of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, the
first camp built for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during
WWII. Although from outside its perimeter Manzanar camp resembled a
military base, this book reveals it to have been more like a city,
yet one its inhabitants were forcibly confined to. The War
Relocation Authority hired over 200 employees to live within the
same barbed-wire enclosure and tasked them with creating and
running this complex facility. This book, told from the first-hand
experiences of the teenage son of two WRA employees, focuses on the
complexities of life within Manzanar camp as employees and
internees learned to work together to build a city, complete with
hospital, schools, churches, and manufacturing plants, out of an
incarceration center. It was through daily, side by side contact
that each grew to understand and respect the other. Never before
has a book's focus fallen upon the WRA employees and their families
and the day to day struggles of operating the camp at Manzanar.
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