And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps

John Tateishi, 1984

The book is basically a transcribing of oral testimony about the lives of people in the internment camps and in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in France and Italy. The introduction of the book goes into the history of the movement for and establishment of the camps.

It's always good to have books like this one that make the events that happened more personal by having people who actually went through the internment and other things that happened be the ones who tell the story. The stories cover pretty much the full range of the experiences including various troubles at the camps, lack of adequate medical facilities, etc. It's not a pretty picture because it wasn't a pretty time, to say the least.

A very interesting, very personal sort of book.

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