The release date for the English version of 'They Called Us Enemy' by
George Takei is Jul 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A vivid memoir detailing the childhood imprisonment of actor, novelist, and activist George Takei in American detention camps during World War II. Discover the influences that moulded both America and one of its icons.
George Takei woke up as a four-year-old kid to discover his own birth nation at war with his father's, and his whole family pushed from their home into an unknown future, long before he ventured new horizons in Star Trek.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an order in 1942 that resulted in the roundup and shipment of all people of Japanese heritage living on the west coast to one of 10 "relocation centres," hundreds or thousands of miles away from their homes, where they would be detained for years under armed supervision.
They Said to Us Takei's first-hand narrative of his years spent behind barbed wire, the pleasures and horrors of growing up in an environment where racism was tolerated, his mother's difficult decisions, his father's belief in democracy, and how all of these things shaped his incredible destiny can be found in Enemy.