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Baseball behind barbed wire

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:46:00 -0500

An audio slideshow of Japanese and Japanese-American internment during World War II, and how baseball became a lifeline for those in the camps.

GEorge Sedlak

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:37:03 -0600

Is there a book on this story, or just the movie?

Thank you.

Francyl Gawryn

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:39:34 -0500

"Behind Barbed Wire" is also the name of a very well produced documentary which follows the stories of Japanese people in the Bainbridge Island, WA community before, during and after WWII. It shows them playing baseball, and describes in great detail through interviews and newspaper stories how these people survived this experience of being in internment camps in the United States during the war.