Reviews tagging 'War'

Eine Kindheit im Internierungslager by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

61 reviews

xread_write_repeatx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Racism

craftingcatlady's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A wonderful and reflective look at George Takei’s childhood, growing up during World War II’s Japanese Internment Camps, and how it helped to shape him into the actor and activist his is today. 

History books look back at history and tells it from an adult’s lenses. But George, as he is talking about his time at the camps, shows us the same history but through the lens and understanding of a child. The contrast’s painted of how he and his siblings handled the situation versus how his parents did, while remaining strong for their children, is striking. 

I have watched Takei as Sulu in Star Trek growing up, and I had no idea the breadth of his acting career, nor the activism he is involved in. Discovering this, adds another layer onto his Sulu character for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Racism, Confinement, Violence, and War

Moderate: Racial slurs

jacob_dion's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Confinement, Racial slurs, Grief, Racism, and War

punionrings's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Racism, War, and Violence

livlamentloathe's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Fascinating, heartbreaking, and hard to read. It was well told, but it was hard for the very reasons Takei lists at the end of the book: history is repeating itself. I knew very little of the Japanese internment until maybe college? Most of what I’ve learned has come from reading—unassigned/not for school.

I implore everyone to read this book. Or anything similar to understand the actions of our government. Not to “understand” as in “agree with,” but to acknowledge how bloody and disreputable our history is. The Germans weren’t the only villains of the second world war.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Hate crime, and Confinement

Moderate: War, Colonisation, and Deportation

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, War, and Xenophobia

markwillnevercry's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

4.5

I wanted to read this graphic novel for a while, but never had time or could not get it and as with many things that you wait for a while to read - you start to suspect that it will be not as good as you want it to be. However, this was good. I did, however, take a pretty long time that this was the story by George Takei, but that is just because I do not read author names. This was really well written and was very informative. The US sucks.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Pregnancy, Confinement, Bullying, Police brutality, War, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and Deportation

miss_vonnegut's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I've been meaning to read this for a long time and I'm so glad I finally did. I don't recall learning much about Japanese interment in history classes, I think it was mentioned briefly, maybe talked about for a few minutes, but that was it. So much was glossed over and positioned as though it happened so long ago and like the US has learned from its mistakes. Takei makes it very clear that this is recent history, some of the events mentioned even took place after I was born, and he also makes it clear that these events can repeat themselves if we don't pay attention. (And in fact, they have in several ways.) Sometimes learning about history feels daunting to me and I struggle to remember what I've learned, but the barrier to entry is astoundingly low for this book, meaning that everyone can and absolutely should read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: War

lidia7's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Confinement

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, and Grief

Minor: War and Child death

charliereadsalot's review against another edition

4.25

 4.25 STARS

CW: xenophobia, racism, war, mention of death (including of loved ones)

This was a very informative and eye-opening read. As a German we get taught a lot about WWII but usually not about what happened in the States. To be perfectly honest, up until this semester at uni I had never really wondered about repercussions for immigrants from Japan living in the US during the war and after Pearl Harbor, so I also did not know about the internment camps and forced relocations.

I really liked the format of the graphic novel, it made the information and account of what happened much more accessible and memorable. It is important to be aware of history such as this and this book is an easy and quick way for people to educate themelves.

One key aspect that elevated the graphic novel in my opinion is the connection between what happened to Japanese Americans in the 40s and what continues to happen to immigrants and people of various descents to this day in the US. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Death