Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific

This is an invaluable addition to the literature on Japanese Americans in World War II, providing the most comprehensive coverage of their military activities yet and going far beyond telling merely the admittedly epic story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. While the 442nd and the 100th Battalion were covering themselves with glory in Italy, other Japanese Americans had already stood to arms in defense of Pearl Harbor and volunteered by the hundreds and thousands as indispensable translators for military intelligence in the Pacific theater. Some of those intelligence operatives worked in occupied areas; others risked and sometimes lost their lives trying to persuade Japanese soldiers to surrender. Crost's effort greatly increases knowledge of this aspect of Asian American history, even as it also increases outrage at the panic, bigotry, and outright criminality behind the placing of Japanese Americans on the home front in internment camps. Roland Green