Days of Infamy

Days Of Infamy Is A Novelthat Dramatizes An Unjust Era In The Lives Of Japanese-Americans Theirinternment During World War Ii. The Novel Traces The Plight Of The Fujiwaras And The Miyamotos Twofamilies Confined At Manzanar Where 10000 Peoplewere Crammed Into Jerry-Built Barracks And Where They Were Forced To Endure Theextreme Weather Of California'S Owens Valley. Using Initiative Thesemisplaced Citizens Changed Their Environment: They Grew Enough Crops To Makethem Self- Sustaining; They Made Furniture Created Art Organized SportsInstituted Clubs Taught Their Own Children. They Were Only Meant To SurviveBut Instead They Prevailed.Little Known At That Time Were The Japanese-American Army Units Which Consisted Ofvolunteers From Hawaii And Theinternment Camps. The Novel Follows The Military Adventures Of A Distantrelative Of The Fujiwaras Kuruyashima A Volunteer WhoWith His Comrades Sees Battle On The Italian Front.George Fujiwara Whose Parentsare Confined To Manzanar Was Not Interned. His Brilliance In Physics Has Madehim A Valuable Scientist At The University Of California BerkeleyAnd He Later Becomes An Innovator On The Manhattan Project. Through Thetreachery Of An Associate George Becomes Unwittingly Entangled In Espionage.