Tales by Japanese soldiers of the Burma Campaign 1942-1945 / Kazuo Tamayama and John Nunneley
- Bib ID:
- 742285
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- Book
- Author:
- Tamayama, Kazuo
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- London : Cassell ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Sterling Publishing, 2000
- 254 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0304355283
- Summary:
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"Over 305,000 Japanese soldiers fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945: 180,000 of them died. This book tells how the common soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army lived, fought and died in that terrible conflict. Here are straightforward accounts, sometimes moving, often shocking, of what it was like to fight a strange war in a strange country, far from home, short of food and weapons, confused, facing death from disease and starvation as well as enemy action." "Sixty-two 'tales', translated from the Japanese, trace the Burma campaign in chronological sequence and together offer a new perspective on a terrible war. Japanese soldiers, navy men, fighter pilots, and others were from a different culture, certainly, but they were not the devils of popular legend. Just like their enemies, they were frightened young men, fighting to the death a war they did not understand.".
"The Japanese are notoriously reticent about their involvement in the Second World War, and no similar volume has ever before been published, either in Japanese or English. Now, for the first time, the ordinary Japanese soldier tells his story."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Japanese.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Nunneley, John
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