BOOK REVIEW: BOOK REVIEW NUMBER VII

Those of you much younger than I will find this book unbelievable. Based on what we consider today to be impossible, truth be known that in the WW-II chronology, these things actually happened! Folks with no history of enmity to this country were imprisoned and interned in places far from their homes for the duration of that terrible war. With no justification, thousands of Japanese were torn from their homes and businesses and interned in squalid shacks in places distant from the coasts to prevent them from communicating with the Japanese War Lords. Was all of this necessary, or could much of it been avoided? We’ll never know, but this intriguing book is a must read for those who continue to wonder.

From my own experience in Southern California, I witnessed the devastation visited on these poor souls in the aftermath as speculators and attorneys bought up their holdings for cents on the dollar, and refused them service in public places years after the war was over!

Read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, Ballantine Books , 2009.