Flowers of Edo: a novel
Michael Dana Kennedy
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Publication:
- New York : Vertical, [2010]
- Copyright:
- ©2010
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- Summary:
- "In the climactic closing months of World War II, Allied Intelligence officers are summoned to the Malcañan Palace in Manila to be briefed by General MacArthur's Intelligence Staff on the optimal conclusion to the conflict in the Pacific Theater. Intelligence collected at the time concluded that the Americans had only three options to effectively force the Imperial Japanese Military into surrender: encirclement, blockade, and bombardment; isolating Japan from its forces in China, Korea, and Formosa; or engaging Japan through a full-scale amphibious invasion ... Japanese-American Lt. Ken Kobayashi must straddle a delicate line between duty to country and honor to his family as he is assigned by General MacArthur to infiltrate the Imperial Japanese Army in the lead-up to an invasion of the Japanese archipelago ..."--Dust jacket flap.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- Physical Description:
- 542 pages ; 22 cm
- Call Numbers:
- PS3611.E57 F46 2010
- ISBNs:
- 9781934287804
1934287806 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2010283681
- OCLC Numbers:
- 436030140