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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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120000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Summary |
After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara-all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest-moved to Hiroshima, their mother's ancestral home. Eager to go back to his own land-America-Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. Despite being sent to an internment camp, Harry dutifully volunteered to serve his country. Back in Hiroshima, his brothers Frank and Pierce became soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army. As the war raged on, Harry, one of the finest bilingual interpreters in the United States Army, island-hopped across the Pacific, moving ever closer to the enemy and to his younger brothers. But before the Fukuharas would have to face each other in battle, the U.S. detonated the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, gravely injuring tens of thousands of civilians, including members of their family. Alternating between the American and Japanese perspectives, Midnight in Broad Daylight captures the uncertainty and intensity of those charged with the fighting and provides a fresh look at the dropping of the first atomic bomb. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by Emily Woo Zeller. |
| Summary |
Relates the true story of three Japanese American brothers who found themselves on opposite sides of the world and the war after two of them returned to their mother's ancestral home of Hiroshima in the late 1930s while the eldest brother served as a Japanese interpreter in the U.S. Army. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Fukuhara, Harry K., 1920-2015.
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Fukuhara, Pierce, 1922-2008.
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Fukuhara, Frank, 1924-2015.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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1939-1945 |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
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Japanese American families -- Washington (State) -- Seattle.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.
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Translators -- United States -- Biography.
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Soldiers -- Japan -- Biography.
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International relations. |
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Japanese American families. |
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Japanese Americans. |
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Soldiers. |
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Translators. |
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Japan -- Relations -- United States.
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United States -- Relations -- Japan.
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. |
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United States. |
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Washington (State) -- Seattle. |
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Audiobooks.
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Biography.
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Downloadable audiobooks. |
| Added Author |
Zeller, Emily Woo, narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner, 1962- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2016] 9781494519452 (NjBwBT)bl2016028069 (OCoLC)931722698 |
| ISBN |
9781494599454 : $54.95 |
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1494599457 : $54.95 |
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