Unabridged Audiobook
This book makes history come alive by illustrating how events affect people’s lives. Let’s hope that history does not repeat itself.
It's ok, not great. Given the subject, my expectations were pretty high.
A well researched, brilliantly told and enlightening story by a great story teller. Louis Ozawa's narration made the book come alive while I was on long walks and hikes. This book deserves to be listened to.
Well researched by a great story teller. Americans abused and profiled by other Americans only because of birth. Yet they persevered and overcame to be the most decorated unit in all theaters of WW2. A story that needed to be told with pain, courage and humor.
After reading "The Boys in the Boat" I was excited to start "Facing the Mountain" but in this book, there are no heroes. Perhaps "Facing the Mountain" covers too many ideas and has too many characters and as a in all wars, the heroes are dead and the Japanese internment remains a blot on the pages of American history. There are stories of the first fortifications after Pearl Harbor in Hawaii being dug by Japanese boy scouts. There are cases of Japanese returning from the concentration camps to houses that are maintained as new and being handed bank deposit books with all the profits that their farms had made during the internment. These stories are not told here. The stories told here are the hateful racism and the waste of war. Anyone who has served during times of conflict knows these stories all too well but the reason for participating in any conflict is the small victories that each person achieves for themselves. The 442nd may have been the most decorated unit in World War II but even that was late, an congressional afterthought.
Great book!
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