Branded

This fully-documented account of the homefront restrictions, internments and evacuations of Italian 'enemy aliens' during World War II includes a gold mine of personal narratives, records from government files, and newspaper sources never before seen._x000D_

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Lawrence DiStasi’s new book, Branded: How Italian Immigrants Became ‘Enemies’ During World War II, fills a great need in the history of the World War II home front. Starting with the U.S. government's preparations in the days before the war, DiStasi's narrative takes us through the early warning signs that exploded in December 1941 when 600,000 Italian immigrants were hit with the stigma that branded them as ‘alien enemies’ of their adopted country, and then fills out the narrative to its postwar conclusion. Obscured for years by the 'accepted public narrative', this authoritative rendering of the "secret story" clearly lays out the story in all its complexity–making it a secret no more.