442

442 by Koji Steven Sakai. perfect edition. ISBN: 9780692156766.

Based on one of World War IIs most compelling and important stories. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was the U.S. Armys Japanese American segregated fighting regiment. The 442nd would become the most decorated unit of the War, and the most decorated unit of its size and length of service in American history. Even with their families confined behind barbed wire in American concentration camps, these soldiers fought to rescue a Texas battalion lost behind enemy lines. A fictionalized account based on the actual events, "442" follows young Japanese Americans soldiers as they suffer prejudice, internment and terrible casualties in in their battle to rescue the Lost Battalion.