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No Surrender : My Thirty-Year War
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Onoda, Hiroo.
- Series:
- Bluejacket Bks.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan. Rikugun--Biography.
- Onoda, Hiroo.
- Soldiers--Japan--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Armistices.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.
- World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Lubang Island.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese--Lubang Island--Philippines--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Armistices--Japan.
- Soldiers.
- Japan.
- Local Subjects:
- Japan. Rikugun--Biography.
- Onoda, Hiroo.
- Soldiers--Japan--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Armistices.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.
- World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Lubang Island.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- No Surrender
- Place of Publication:
- : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one day his fellow soldiers would return victorious. This account of those years is an epic tale of the will to survive that offers a rare glimpse of man's invincible spirit, resourcefulness, and ingenuit
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Reunion ""; ""Commando Training ""; ""Fateful Orders""; ""No Will to Fight ""; ""The Four-Day Battle ""; ""The Vow to Fight On ""; ""Three Soldiers at War ""; ""Faked Messages""; ""Jungle Life ""; ""Devils in the Mountains""; ""Alone ""; ""February 20, 1974""; ""Lubang, Sayonara ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781612515649
- 1612515649
- OCLC:
- 862611802
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