JUST PUBLISHED

TALES BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS

Of the Burma Campaign 1942-1945

by 

KAZUO TAMAYAMA

and

JOHN NUNNELEY 

Timed to mark the 60th Anniversary of the outbreak of ‘The Pacific War’ that threw Britain against Japan, TALES BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS contains sixty-two personal stories by privates, non-commissioned officers and junior officers of their experiences in the six phases of the Campaign: 

TO RANGOON * ADVANCE * OCCUPATION * ARAKAN OPERATIONS * IMPHAL AND KOHIMA * RETREAT

Comprehensive notes support each Part 

The Japanese are famously reticent about the detail of their involvement in the Second World War, and no similar volume has ever before been published, either in Japanese or English. TALES BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS is therefore a major publishing coup. For the first time we are told how the common soldier lived, fought, and died, in that long and savage conflict in which only 118,352 of an army of 305,501 returned home. 

These are straightforward, unvarnished accounts, often stark and shocking, often intensely moving, by infantrymen, gunners, engineers, pilots, navy men, medics and nurses. 

Each story is headed with the name, rank and unit of the writer.  British, Indian, Gurkha, East and West African and Chinese units are identified in scores of encounters and twenty-three battles, including:

Bilin * Buthidaung * Donbaik * Imphal * Kanbalu * Kohima * Indainggyi * Irrawaddy River * Kokkogwa * Kuzeik * Kyaukse * Monywa * Pegu * Sangshak * Shwedaung * Shwegyin * Singgel * Sinzweya * Sittang * Tavoy * Thadodan * Wanetchaung * Yenangyaung  

TALES BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS is a book for every Burma veteran to pass down to future generations of his family as the authentic voice of the enemy soldiers he fought against in that strange, distant land.  Here is a treasured heirloom in the making.  As Alexandre Dumas said, ‘Anyone can be a descendant. But I, I am an ancestor!’ 

256 pages  Maps  Illustrations £16.99

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