The I Index

Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II

Top of the pile

82

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

97/100

Critics

67/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Bruce Henderson, Gerald Yamada

Publisher:

Knopf

Date:

September 27, 2022

From the New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps.

What The Reviewers Say

Zack Ruskin,
The San Francisco Chronicle
In Henderson’s justifiably hefty tome, the untold story of the nisei (second-generation Japanese American) soldiers, initially scorned by the U.S. military in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, is finally revealed in full for the first time.
Frederick J. Augustyn Jr.,
Library Journal
... clearly written.

Publishers Weekly
... exceptional.

Kirkus
Henderson brings a great deal of investigative acumen to his latest to give personal depth to the bigger picture.