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Originally posted by Bill Murray:
I just picked an older book (1979 copyright) in my favorite secondhand bookstore that I had never seen before. The name of the book is Yankee Samurai: The Secret Role of the Nisei in America's Pacific Victory by Joseph Harrington. I figure that I will get to this book within the next 2 weeks as I want to finish the one I'm currently reading first. I'll report back on the book upon my completion.
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Well I have finished the book and I think I know why this book is not very widely known about now. While there were some interesting stories about Americans of Japanese descent who served in the Pacific, the first problem with the book that I realized was that there were no footnotes, bibliography or source notes in this book. This raises a huge red flag to me. The next problem is that as the book went on I began to realize that the author I most likely a conspiracy theorist. He makes accusations against the US government that I have seen elsewhere and again the lack of citations makes me dubious as to whether this was made up by the author or if recollections of the events were clouded by memory. I am hoping that it was the latter. Also some basic facts regarding the war in the Pacific were just plain wrong in the book. I would not call it a complete waste of time (I don't believe any book dealing with history is a complete waste) but I certainly would not recommend that anyone spend their hard earned money on it either. The next book on my list is "The Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan" by Ronald Spector