The Eagles of Heart Mountain
A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
The impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told tale about a World War II internment camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores. In the summer of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, and sent them to internment camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they built Buddh…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-982107-05-5
- EAN: 9781982107055
- Produktnummer: 34334402
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 24'391 KB
- Abbildungen: 16-page b&w insert
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Bradford Pearson
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