Japanese War Fantasy 1933
A new annotated edition of a shocking Japanese paperback, published in 1933, which foreshadowed a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet.Learn why the original Japanese version was confiscated and banned in the US. The government went as far as to collect books that had already been sold.The original novel was endorsed by two admirals in the Imperial Japanese Navy, both of whom provided forewords for the book. Although explicitly a work of fiction, the book was implicitly a statement of real IJN strategy.
Kyosuke Fukunaga, Jamie Bisher, Jamie Bisher
Jamie Bisher has a passion for sleuthing through early-20th-century intelligence files at the National Archives. He has published three books and over 20 articles in various historical magazines and journals. He is the only freelancer who has ever published features in both Soldier of Fortune and Cat Fancy, and he earned acknowledgments for assistance to authors James Palmer (Bloody White Baron) and John S. D. Eisenhower (Intervention!). Bisher holds a BS degree from the United States Air Force Academy, a graduate certificate in linguistics from American University, and a master's degree in international management from the University of Maryland.
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
