One thousand days in Siberia : the Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW / Iwao Peter Sano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sano, Iwao Peter, 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sano, Iwao Peter, 1924-.

Sano, Iwao Peter.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.

Japanese Americans.

Prisoners of war--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--Biography.

Prisoners of war.

Russia (Federation)--Siberia.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- Japanese.

Personal narratives -- American.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

1,000 days in Siberia

1000 days in Siberia

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1997]

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.

ISBN:

080324262X

OCLC:

36158757