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Read [Tatsuzo Ishikawa Book] # Soldiers Alive Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Soldiers Alive In its unforgettable depiction of an ostensibly altruistic war's devastating effects on the soldiers who fought it and the civilians they presumed to liberate, Ishikawa's work retains its power to shock, inform, and provoke.. When the editors of Chuo koron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prize-winning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzo to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war repo

Soldiers Alive

Title : Soldiers Alive
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Rating : 4.42 (922 Votes)
Asin : 0824827546
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 216 Pages
Publish Date : 0000-00-00
Language : English

A landmark in war reportage." . "The twentieth century, and now the twenty-first, has seen brutal wars in every part of the globe. Many firsthand accounts of these conflicts have been written, but none more compelling than Soldiers Alive

John Cowsert said Japanese soldiers lives. one perspective of Japanese soldiers. Robert P. said Five Stars. Item as advertised and delivery very prompt.. "An Excellent Novel of the Japanese Experience in World War II" according to Robert Bolton. I purchased this novel to gain some idea of what World War II was like through the eyes of the Axis. While German and Italian writers have been available for decades, in both fiction and memoirs, there has been a surprising paucity of work from the Japanese perspective, with a few exceptions like Letters From Iwo Jima. This book is not common propaganda, however.

. Zeljko (Jake) Cipris is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California

In its unforgettable depiction of an ostensibly altruistic war's devastating effects on the soldiers who fought it and the civilians they presumed to liberate, Ishikawa's work retains its power to shock, inform, and provoke.. When the editors of Chuo koron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prize-winning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzo to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation. Decades later, Soldiers Alive remains a deeply disturbing and eye-opening account of the Japanese march on Nanking and its aftermath. They could not predict, however, that Ishikawa would write an unsettling novella so grimly realistic it would promptly be banned and lead to the author's conviction on charges of disturbing peace and order

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