9780615432724-0615432727-Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War

Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War

ISBN-13: 9780615432724
ISBN-10: 0615432727
Author: Gwen Terasaki
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Rock Creek Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780615432724
ISBN-10: 0615432727
Author: Gwen Terasaki
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Rock Creek Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War (ISBN-13: 9780615432724 and ISBN-10: 0615432727), written by authors Gwen Terasaki, was published by Rock Creek Books in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.32.

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National Book Award Finalist Non-Fiction (1958) * Washington Post Non-Fiction Book of the Year (1958) * New York Times Bestseller

Bridge to the Sun is a beautiful, tender, and moving love story-the true report of an international and interracial marriage of a an American girl from the mountains of Tennessee and a Japanese diplomat. They were married in 1931, just as tension between their two countries was mounting, and their constant dream was of a "rainbow across the Pacific," a bridge of peace between Japan and the United States.

In the following ten years, Mr. Terasaki's service with the Japanese Foreign Office took them to Japan, China (where their daughter Mariko was born), Cuba, and Washington, where they were living at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. As head of Japanese intelligence in the Western Hemisphere, Terasaki took enormous personal risks to avert war between the two countries. Mrs. Terasaki describes with rare perception and fine humor her months of internment with the Japanese diplomatic corps at Hot Springs and White Sulphur Springs, the long voyage back to Japan via Africa on the famed exchange ship Gripsholm, and the struggle of the war years in Japan which were marked by illness and near starvation. After the surrender, Mr. Terasaki, a courageous and brilliant man who had risked everything to avert the war, was appointed liaison between the Emperor and General MacArthur, and in this capacity, he made a lasting contribution to post-war relations between the two countries.

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