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The Colonel and the Pacifist
By Klancy Clack de Nevers |
ORDER -- Item #3286, Price $21.95
Karl Bendetsen was the colonel in charge of West Coast evacuation; Perry Saito was incarcerated at Tule Lake camp. While they never met, their lives touched tangentially-from their common hometown to their eventual testimony during the 1981 hearings of the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. In weaving together their contrasting stories, Klancy Clark de Nevers not only exposes unknown or little known aspects of World War II history, she also explores larger issues of racism and war that resonate through the years and ring eerily familiar to our post-9/11 ears.
"The Colonel and the Pacifist is a fascinating and engaging account of divergent lives marked by a singular event--World War II--and their choices exercised in shaping the course and writing of history. Highly recommended."
"A chilling tale of mendacity and crass ambition…a painful reminder of how ignorance and war hysteria made it possible for one man to trample on the Constitution."
Book Description from Back Cover
The Colonel and the Pacifist tells the story of two men caught up in one of the most infamous episodes in American history: the forced internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
Comments from Back Cover
"Imaginative and lively, with sound scholarship, The Colonel and the Pacifist is a significant contribution not only to American history generally, but to Japanese American studies and the period of the second World War. And it does so in a lively and provocative fashion."
- Sandra Taylor, author of Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz
- Gary Y. Okihiro author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History
- Kai Bird, author of The Color of Truth
Background on Klancy Clark de Nevers
Klancy Clark de Nevers is a retired software engineer who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington, she developed an abiding interest in World War II as her parents anxiously looked west and following the progress of the war on a huge map. Four of her uncles served in that war, and two did not return. With Lucy Hart of Seattle, she edited Cohassett Beach Chronicles: World War II in the Pacific Northwest by Kathy Hogan, a book of Hogan's columns from the wartime pages of the Grays Harbor Post, a weekly published by the de Nevers's family.
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