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Japanese Tanks 1939-45
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Peter Bull
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $13.95
Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese Army widely employed tanks within the Pacific theater of war. This title details their key role in the conquests of Singapore and Malaya, as well as their later use in Burma, Saipan, and the Philippines, including in the amphibious assault of Corregidor. Tank development succeeded... Read more >
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Peter Bull
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $13.95
Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese Army widely employed tanks within the Pacific theater of war. This title details their key role in the conquests of Singapore and Malaya, as well as their later use in Burma, Saipan, and the Philippines, including in the amphibious assault of Corregidor. Tank development succeeded... Read more >
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The Samurai Capture a King: Okinawa 1609
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Richard Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $9.95
A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers. The defeat of the Shimazu at Sekigahara in 1600, and their... Read more >
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Richard Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $9.95
A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers. The defeat of the Shimazu at Sekigahara in 1600, and their... Read more >
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The road to victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
Written by Dale Dye and Robert O'Neill
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $27.95
On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was inevitably... Read more >
Written by Dale Dye and Robert O'Neill
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $27.95
On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was inevitably... Read more >
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The road to victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
Written by Dale Dye
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $12.99
On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was inevitably... Read more >
Written by Dale Dye
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $12.99
On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was inevitably... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Ki-44 'Tojo' Aces of World War 2
Written by Nicholas Millman
Illustrated by Ronnie Olsthoorn
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $22.95
The 100th title of Osprey's celebrated Aircraft of the Aces series covers a subject sure to be of interest to historians of World War II. The Ki-44 'Tojo' was a fast-climbing, heavily armed point-defence interceptor that was used successfully in slashing hit-and-run tactics that caught Allied pilots by surprise. In the... Read more >
Written by Nicholas Millman
Illustrated by Ronnie Olsthoorn
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $22.95
The 100th title of Osprey's celebrated Aircraft of the Aces series covers a subject sure to be of interest to historians of World War II. The Ki-44 'Tojo' was a fast-climbing, heavily armed point-defence interceptor that was used successfully in slashing hit-and-run tactics that caught Allied pilots by surprise. In the... Read more >
The Revenge of the 47 Ronin - Edo 1703
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Johnny Shumate
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $14.95
From 1600 till 1866 civil strife in public was virtually unknown in Japan; however, personal loyalty and self-sacrifice could at times rise above the samurai hierarchy to redefine Japanese culture. In 1703 former samurai avenged their lord in the most legendary raid in Japanese history. The story of the 47 ronin is a tale rich in emotion... Read more >
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Johnny Shumate
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $14.95
From 1600 till 1866 civil strife in public was virtually unknown in Japan; however, personal loyalty and self-sacrifice could at times rise above the samurai hierarchy to redefine Japanese culture. In 1703 former samurai avenged their lord in the most legendary raid in Japanese history. The story of the 47 ronin is a tale rich in emotion... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Revenge of the 47 Ronin - Edo 1703
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland and Mariusz Kozik
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $18.95
From 1600 till 1866 civil strife in public was virtually unknown in Japan; however, personal loyalty and self-sacrifice could at times rise above the samurai hierarchy to redefine Japanese culture. In 1703 former samurai avenged their lord in the most legendary raid in Japanese history. The story of the 47 ronin is a tale rich in emotion... Read more >
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland and Mariusz Kozik
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $18.95
From 1600 till 1866 civil strife in public was virtually unknown in Japan; however, personal loyalty and self-sacrifice could at times rise above the samurai hierarchy to redefine Japanese culture. In 1703 former samurai avenged their lord in the most legendary raid in Japanese history. The story of the 47 ronin is a tale rich in emotion... Read more >
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The Secrets of Mariko
A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
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Tokyo Underworld
The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
Written by Robert Whiting
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945.
In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese... Read more >
The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
Written by Robert Whiting
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945.
In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Underground
The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Written by Haruki Murakami
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2010
Price: $11.99
From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas... Read more >
The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Written by Haruki Murakami
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2010
Price: $11.99
From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Richard Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $19.95
The two attempts by Khubilai Khan, the Mongol Emperor of China, to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281 represent unique events in the history of both countries. It pitted the samurai of Japan against the fierce warriors of the steppes who had conquered half the known world.
The Mongol conquest of Korea... Read more >
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Richard Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $19.95
The two attempts by Khubilai Khan, the Mongol Emperor of China, to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281 represent unique events in the history of both countries. It pitted the samurai of Japan against the fierce warriors of the steppes who had conquered half the known world.
The Mongol conquest of Korea... Read more >
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eBook.
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Shutting Out the Sun
How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
Written by Michael Zielenziger
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $11.99
The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a... Read more >
How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
Written by Michael Zielenziger
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $11.99
The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ki-43 Oscar Aces of World War 2
Written by Hiroshi Ichimura
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $22.95
Dubbed the 'Oscar' by the Allies, the Ki-43 Hayabusa was the most prolific Japanese fighter of World War II. Produced in great numbers, it initially proved superior to most US and British fighter types, due to its excellent maneuverability. The light weight and large wing area gave it a small turning... Read more >
Written by Hiroshi Ichimura
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $22.95
Dubbed the 'Oscar' by the Allies, the Ki-43 Hayabusa was the most prolific Japanese fighter of World War II. Produced in great numbers, it initially proved superior to most US and British fighter types, due to its excellent maneuverability. The light weight and large wing area gave it a small turning... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Japanese Castles AD 250--1540
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $18.95
Renowned expert Stephen Turnbull examines the castles built in Japan, from the first primitive fortifications in the Yayoi Period (300 BC-AD 250) through to the first proper castles which began to be developed with the rise to power of the Yamato Court, the first emperors of Japan in around AD 250... Read more >
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $18.95
Renowned expert Stephen Turnbull examines the castles built in Japan, from the first primitive fortifications in the Yayoi Period (300 BC-AD 250) through to the first proper castles which began to be developed with the rise to power of the Yamato Court, the first emperors of Japan in around AD 250... Read more >
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First Into Nagasaki
The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Written by George Weller
Edited by Anthony Weller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
Lost for more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Weller’s legendary dispatches from post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki were discovered after his death by his son, Anthony Weller. Here, this historic body of work is published for the first time. Read more >
The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Written by George Weller
Edited by Anthony Weller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
Lost for more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Weller’s legendary dispatches from post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki were discovered after his death by his son, Anthony Weller. Here, this historic body of work is published for the first time. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Great Wave
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Written by Christopher Benfey
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern... Read more >
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Written by Christopher Benfey
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Last Mission
The Secret History of World War II's Final Battle
Written by Jim Smith and Malcolm McConnell
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.
How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two... Read more >
The Secret History of World War II's Final Battle
Written by Jim Smith and Malcolm McConnell
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.
How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Shutting Out the Sun
How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
Written by Michael Zielenziger
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
Written by Michael Zielenziger
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America as the leading global economic powerhouse. But the country failed to recover from the staggering economic collapse of the early 1990s. Today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends, notably a population of more than one million hikikomori: the...
Read more >
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eBook.
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Japanese Masterworks from the Price Collection
Edited by Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
This lavishly illustrated volume of Japanese masterpieces from the Etsuko and Joe Price Collection, widely recognized as one of the finest private collections of Edo-period art in the world, features 225 full-color and 114 black-and-white images representing the rich aesthetic diversity that characterized the Edo period. At the collection's core are... Read more >
Edited by Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
This lavishly illustrated volume of Japanese masterpieces from the Etsuko and Joe Price Collection, widely recognized as one of the finest private collections of Edo-period art in the world, features 225 full-color and 114 black-and-white images representing the rich aesthetic diversity that characterized the Edo period. At the collection's core are... Read more >
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First Into Nagasaki
The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Written by George Weller and Anthony Weller
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $11.99
George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller... Read more >
The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Written by George Weller and Anthony Weller
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $11.99
George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Geisha
A Photographic History, 1872-1912
Written by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Burns
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
Japanese geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-nineteenth century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travelers. Tourists desired images of landscapes and traditional Japanese culture, which Japanese photographers provided. They created souvenir albums consisting of hand-colored photographs individually chosen by the... Read more >
A Photographic History, 1872-1912
Written by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Burns
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
Japanese geisha and courtesans intrigue and fascinate Westerners. During the mid-nineteenth century, Japan opened its doors to the world and became an essential destination for travelers. Tourists desired images of landscapes and traditional Japanese culture, which Japanese photographers provided. They created souvenir albums consisting of hand-colored photographs individually chosen by the... Read more >
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Wrong About Japan
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.95
When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, 12-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. His father said yes. Out of that bargain comes this enchanting tour of the mansion of Japanese culture, as entered through its garish, brightly... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.95
When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, 12-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. His father said yes. Out of that bargain comes this enchanting tour of the mansion of Japanese culture, as entered through its garish, brightly... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bushido
The Spirit of the Samurai
Written by Inazo Nitobe
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $18.95
There are eight virtues of Bushido, the code of the samurai: justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. These virtues comprise the essence of Japanese cultural beliefs, which are still present today.
Inazo Nitobe, one of Japan's most respected scholars, explores the ethical code of the samurai and contextualizes... Read more >
The Spirit of the Samurai
Written by Inazo Nitobe
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $18.95
There are eight virtues of Bushido, the code of the samurai: justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. These virtues comprise the essence of Japanese cultural beliefs, which are still present today.
Inazo Nitobe, one of Japan's most respected scholars, explores the ethical code of the samurai and contextualizes... Read more >
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Japanese Paratroop Forces of World War II
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2005
Price: $18.95
Osprey's examination of Japan's parachute units of World War II (1939-1945). For the first time in English, this book offers a concise but fact-packed account of the organization, equipment, and all operations of Japan's small but elite wartime parachute forces. Correcting and amplifying previous accounts based on wartime intelligence, it traces... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2005
Price: $18.95
Osprey's examination of Japan's parachute units of World War II (1939-1945). For the first time in English, this book offers a concise but fact-packed account of the organization, equipment, and all operations of Japan's small but elite wartime parachute forces. Correcting and amplifying previous accounts based on wartime intelligence, it traces... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Japanese Infantryman 1937-45
Sword of the Empire
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Michael Welply
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2005
Price: $18.95
This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS of World War II (1939-1945), an enigma to Westerners. Brutal in its treatment of prisoners as well as the inhabitants of the areas that it conquered, the Imperial Japanese Army also had exacting... Read more >
Sword of the Empire
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Michael Welply
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2005
Price: $18.95
This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS of World War II (1939-1945), an enigma to Westerners. Brutal in its treatment of prisoners as well as the inhabitants of the areas that it conquered, the Imperial Japanese Army also had exacting... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
