Reviewed by Eiichiro Azuma | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II. By James C. McNaughton. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 2006. xv + 514 pp. Photographs, tables, charts, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.00 (paper).

Evaluating an "official history" is tricky. James McNaughton's Nisei Linguists is such a work—one that offers an interpretive frame and narrative sanctioned by the military. Published by the Department of the Army, the book provides a wealth of information that the "command historian" marshaled from government archives, oral histories, and many other sources. Nisei Linguists is rich in substance and well researched. Yet from a scholarly standpoint, the positive aspects of this encyclopedic work are overridden by the problems rooted in its identity as an official military history.

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