Silent Voices Of World War II.

Silent Voices Of World War II

Everett M. Rogers & Nancy R. Bartlit

Sunstone Press

PO Box 2321, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2321

1-800-243-5644 www.sunstonepress.com

0865344728, $22.95 (softcover); 086534423X, $28.95 (hardcover)

New Mexico was one of the least populated of the 48 states when America became involved in World War II. Nevertheless, it was the New Mexico National Guard which was the first U.S. military unit to fight the Japanese and hold out for four months on Bataan, followed by years of suffering in POW camps. It was in Los Alamos, New Mexico that the atomic bomb was developed and then tested at a site near Alamogordo. It was Navajo code talkers from New Mexico that helped American forces capture the Pacific bases from which B-29s bombed Japanese cities. Finally, it was near Santa Fe, New Mexico, that several thousand Japanese Americans (classified by the FBI as dangerous enemy aliens) were interned in a camp for the duration of the war. A welcome and highly recommended contribution to twentieth century American history in general, and New Mexico's involvement in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War in particular, Silent Voices Of World War II: When Sons Of The Land Of Enchantment Met Sons Of The Land Of The Rising Sun, collaboratively authored by Everett M. Rogers and Nancy R. Bartlit, provide readers with the story New Mexico's involvement in the second world war as reflected in the stories provided through personal interviews of Navajo Marine privates, National Guard enlistees, Japanese American internees, and the men and women who worked in the wartime Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos fabricating the atomic bomb..