War and Betrayal: From Manzanar to Dachau: A Novel

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the military is clamoring to send all Japanese on the West Coast, citizens and non citizens, to concentration camps in the interior. The basis is military necessity but the true reason is racism and war hysteria. The legal system is tested and fails. The scene then shifts to France where the Jews are being persecuted by racist laws enacted by the Vichy government and enforced by both the French police and courts. The story is told through the experiences of a French born American lawyer who is witness to the failure of both judicial systems. He risks his career and reputation to defend a Japanese American who is going to be sent to a concentration camp, and then his life when he enlists and returns to France as a spy. It is a story of survival and ultimately hope but it is also a cautionary tale that warns when national security is threatened, the constitution is just a scrap of paper.

Author: Jules F. Bonjour
Publisher: Jules F. Bonjour
Published: 06/17/2015
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780692424438

About the Author
Jules Bonjour has been a criminal defense attorney in the San Francisco Bay area for forty nine years. In this, his first novel, he draws upon his many years defending those who have suffered discrimination and prejudice to write about the injustices that Japanese Americans experienced after Pearl Harbor and the Jews suffered in Vichy France after France fell to the Germans in 1940. He was born in 1939, the son of a Swiss immigrant who came to the United States in the late 19th century. He has a B .S. from Northwestern University, a Masters in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, and after a brief stint in the army, he returned to UC to attend law school and received a JD in 1966. He is married and has three 3 children and eight grandchildren. He lives in Berkeley near the Claremont Hotel and the UC campus and is still an active criminal defense attorney.

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