Unlikely Liberators - The Men of the 100th and 442nd - Masayo Umezawa Duus. University of Hawaii Press. 240 pages

The 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team were created out of the fire and chaos of the Second World War. The Nisei (second-generation Americans of Japanese descent) fought for the honor a country that, out of fear, had turned its back on them, imprisoned their families and told them they were not Americans. Despite all of this, the men of these units volunteered to serve, and became one of the most decorated units of the war. The "Christmas Tree Unit" would earn their nickname with the blood of over 9,000 soldiers, earning 18,000 individual citations and 7 Presidential Citations in 9 major campaigns. Through it all, these soldiers, tankers and artillerymen proved that being an American wasn't a matter of race or ancestry but of heart and mind.

This book should be required reading in all history classes so that the lessons of the past can be learned by future generations and never repeated. It's a great book, check it out.