Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese 9780824840587
The fall of Singapore and the brilliant victories achieved since the start of the war mean we are protected, but I don’t
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. The Pacific War and Ordinary Japanese
Japanese Wartime Diaries
Two. The Diary of a Navy Special-Attack Pilot
Three. Bittersweet: The Wartime and Postwar Diary of an Ordinary Kyoto Person
Four. The Diary of a Defeated Japanese Soldier
Five. From the Start of the War
Until the War Ended
Seven. The Diary of a Labor Service Corps Girl
Eight. The Diary of a Evacuated Schoolboy
The Diary of an Evacuated Schoolgirl
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Autor
