This riveting book is the first account written about the highly secret Enemy Alien Internment Program of the United States during WWII. The book presents the story of Ft. Lincoln Internment Camp for German and Japanese aliens near Bismarck, North Dakota.

Based on interviews and FBI and National Archives records, ENEMIES follows the lives of eight internees prior to incarceration at the camp, life once there, and the mark internment made on them.

From day-to-day survival to suicides and attempted escapes, the stories of Kurt Peters, Eddie Friedman, Fred Fengler, Herman Cordes, Hironori Tanaka, and others arrested after Pearl Harbor offer a mesmerizing account of an infamous period of U.S. and WWII history. ENEMIES is food for thought about the realities of civil liberties in American democracy then and now.

Contents: Kurt / Die Wanderkameraden / The Railroaders / Max and Moritz / Hiro / Bibliography

Published by Iowa State University Press
ISBN 0-595-12915-0
$16.95 paperback
Black and white photos; 187 pages