Posts Tagged ‘World War II’
Impounded
As I headed into Asian American Heritage Month* I told myself that that I didn’t need to read more about was the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It is the one moment in Asian American history that most of us know something about. But I kept coming across interesting stuff with new…
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The Countess and the Nazis: A Q & A with Richard Jay Hutto
Months ago, a mutual friend introduced me to Rick Hutto. He thought we had things in common, including writing “lively, vibrant, deeply researched and highly entertaining historic narratives.” (That’s a compliment worth having!) Rick’s latest book, The Countess and the Nazi: An American Family’s Private War is the story of an American heiress who traded…
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From the Archives: Champion’s Day: The End of Old Shanghai
Speaking of the Japanese invasion of China as the possible beginning of World War II, as I believe we were, allow me to share a post from 2020 about a book that introduced me to a very specific piece of that story. *** I will admit that I approached historian James Carter’s book Champion’s Day:…
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