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Author Sano, Iwao Peter, 1924-

Title One thousand days in Siberia : the Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW / Iwao Peter Sano
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 210 pages) : maps, illustrations
Summary "Iwao Peter Sano, a California Nisei, sailed to Japan in 1939 to become an adopted son to his childless aunt and uncle. He was fifteen and knew no Japanese. In the spring of 1945, loyal to his new country, Sano was drafted in the last levy raised in the war. Sent through Korea to join the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, Sano arrived in Hailar; one hundred miles from the Soviet border, as the war was coming to a close. In the confusion that resulted when the war ended, Sano had the bad luck to be in a unit that surrendered to the Russians. It would be nearly three years before he was released to return to Japan." "Sano's account of life in the POW and labor camps of Siberia is the story of a little-known part of the great conflagration that was World War II. It is also the poignant memoir of a man who was always an outsider, both as an American youth of Japanese ancestry and then as a young Japanese man whose loyalties were suspect to his new compatriots."--BOOK JACKET
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Subject Sano, Iwao Peter, 1924-
SUBJECT Sano, Iwao Peter, 1924- fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Japanese Americans
Prisoners of war
Amerikanischer Kriegsgefangener
Erlebnisbericht
Krijgsgevangenen.
Japanners.
History & Archaeology.
History - General.
Geschichte 1945-1948.
Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Sibirien
Japaner.
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Biographies
Personal narratives
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96054629
ISBN 0585266506
9780585266503
Other Titles 1,000 days in Siberia