Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II [Paperback]

One of theWashington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001

In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, butFree to Die for Their Countryis the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused. Based on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller re-creates the emotions and events that followed the arrival of those draft notices, revealing a dark and complex chapter of America's history.

Eric L. Mulleris a professor of law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Untold Patriotism
2. Uneasy Welcome
3. Injury
4. Insult to Injury
5. Reaction
6. Jails within Jails
7. A Shock to the Conscience
8. Incarceration Redux
9. Pardon?
Afterword
Notes
Index