A truly excellent and moving book. The story of the concentration camps for Japanese has often been told, but usually with an emphasis on the silver lining. Michi Weglyn concentrates instead on the other side of the picture. Years of Infamy is hard hitting but fair and balanced. It is a terrible story of administrative callousness and bungling, untold damage to the human soul, confusion, and terror. -- Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan A conscience-wrenching book of major significance. -- Mike Mansfield, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

"A truly excellent and moving book . . . The story of the concentration camps for Japanese has often been told, but usually with an emphasis on the silver lining. . . . Michi Weglyn concentrates instead on the other side of the picture. Years of Infamy is hard hitting but fair and balanced. It is a terrible story of administrative callousness and bungling, untold damage to the human soul, confusion, and terror."-Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

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"Certainly the most thoroughly documented account of WWII Japanese American internment. ..Behind the claim of ‘military necessity’ Weglyn points to the U.S. desire for a ‘barter reserve’—-i.e. hostages of war. Also discussed is the little known fact that Japanese nationals from . . . Latin American countries were exported to the U.S. ..Formidable."

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"Very detailed, nightmarish account . . . painstakingly vivid portrayal of what could be the most grotesque and saddest chapter in our two—century history . . . terrible testimonial to a monumental wrong."

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"Replete with incriminating documents which verify . . . events which led to . . . American concentration camps. . . . The documentation . . . is so complete as to allow no other definition. . . . The grim reality bursts forth from every page."

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"Fascinating and shattering . . . extraordinary history."