Online Event! March 14, 2021 – Posted in: News

The Most Decorated Unit in U.S. Military History: Writing about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

Event by Milne Public Library Williamstown
Online: zoom.us
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 4 PM EDT
Price: FreePublic
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Dr. Andrew Lam is an award-winning author, historian and surgeon whose writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. He will explore the historical background behind Repentance, his newest novel based on the WWII history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of Japanese American soldiers who fought valiantly in Europe while many of them had families incarcerated in camps like Manzanar at home. Repentance won the 2020 Independent Press Award for historical fiction and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award.Dr. Lam’s prior books include Saving Sight, an Amazon bestseller about his career as a retina surgeon, and Two Sons of China, a novel of WWII in China that won a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year award in 2014. He is currently an Assistant Professor at UMass Medical School, attending surgeon at Baystate Medical Center, and resident of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. 

Event Details link: https://www.facebook.com/events/882089859255617/

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91691036773